Julie Yu
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1,019 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
Julie Yu’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The passageway widened out into a wonderful cavern, like a broad hall, sparkling with precious stones and long shining stalactites that looked like icicles of marble.
In the mist stood a beautiful goddess surrounded by fair maidens, all dressed in silvery robes and crowned with flowers.
The shepherd was so overcome by the wonder of this sight that he sank upon his knees.
Then the goddess stretched forth her hands and gave him her blessing, telling him to choose whatever he wished to carry home from the cavern.
The man was no longer afraid when he heard her kind voice speaking to him.
so he looked about and at last humbly asked to have the pretty blue flowers which the fair one held in her hand the lovely goddess frigga or hoda as the german people called her smiled kindly and told the poor shepherd he had made a wise choice
she gave him her bunch of blue flowers with a mesh of seed saying to him you will live and be prosperous so long as the flowers do not fade the peasant bowed thankfully before the goddess and when he rose she had vanished
and he was alone on the mountain-side just as usual with no cavern no sparkling stones and no fair maidens to be seen if it had not been for the pretty blue flowers and the measure of seed in his hand he would have thought it all a dream
He hurried homeward to tell his wife, who was angry when she heard the story, for she thought he had made such a foolish choice.
How much better it would have been, said she, if you had brought home some of those precious stones you tell about, which are worth money, instead of these good-for-nothing flowers.
The poor man bore her angry words quietly.
and made the best of what he had.
He went to work at once to sow his seeds, which he found, to his surprise, were enough to plant several fields.
Every morning before he led his flock to pasture, and on his way home at night, he watched the little green shoots growing in his fields.
Even his wife was pleased
when she saw the lovely blue blossoms of the flax opening then after they had withered and fallen the seeds formed sometimes it seemed to the good man as he stood in the twilight looking over his field that he saw a misty form like the beautiful goddess stretching out her hands over the field of flax to give it her blessing
When at length the seeds had ripened, Frigga came again to show the peasant how to gather his harvest of flax, and to teach his wife to spin and weave it into fine linen, which she bleached in the sun.
The people came from far and near to buy the linen, and the peasant and his wife found themselves busy and happy with money enough,
and to spare when they had lived many years and were growing old among their children and grandchildren the peasant noticed one day that a bunch of blue flowers given to him so many years before which had always kept bright were beginning to fade then he knew he had not much longer to stay
He climbed slowly up the mountainside and found the door of the cavern open.
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