When the time came that she should be laid in the ground they could not bear to part from her. Her pretty cheeks were still rosy red, and she looked just as though she were still living.
“We cannot hide her away in the dark earth,” said the dwarfs, and so they made a transparent coffin of shining glass, and laid her in it, and wrote her name upon it in letters of gold; and that she was a King’s daughter. Then they put the coffin out upon the mountain-top, and one of them always stayed by it and watched it. And birds came too, and wept for Snow-white; first an owl, then a raven, and last a dove.
For a long, long time little Snow-White lay in the coffin, but she did not change; she only looked as though she slept, for she was still as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony.
It chanced that a King’s son came into the wood, and went to the dwarfs’ house, meaning to spend the night there. He saw the coffin upon the mountain-top, with little Snow-White lying within it, and he read the words that were written upon it in letters of gold.
And he said to the dwarfs, “If you will but let me have the coffin, you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it to you.”
But the dwarfs answered, “We would not sell it for all the gold in the world.”
Then said the Prince, “Let me have it as a gift, I pray you, for I cannot live without seeing little Snow-White, and I will prize your gift as the dearest of my possessions.”
The good little dwarfs pitied him when they heard these words, and so gave him the coffin. The King’s son then bade his servants place it upon their shoulders and carry it away, but as they went they stumbled over the stump of a tree, and the violent shaking shook the piece of poisonous apple which had lodged in Snow-White’s throat out again, so that she opened her eyes, raised the lid of the coffin, and sat up, alive once more.
最后他们绝望了，准备将她入土掩埋，但看到白雪公主的脸色红润依旧，栩栩如生，他们说：“我们不能把她埋在阴冷黑暗的地下。”所以，他们做了一口从外面也能看见她的玻璃棺材把她放了进去，棺材上用金子嵌着白雪公主的名字及铭文。小矮人们将棺材安放在一座小山上面，由一个小矮人永远坐在旁边看守。天空中飞来不少鸟儿，首先是一只猫头鹰，接着是一只渡鸦，最后飞来的是一只鸽子，它们都来为白雪公主的死而痛哭。
白雪公主就这样一直被安放在小山上，过了很久很久，她的样子看起来仍然像是在那儿安睡，皮肤仍然如雪一样的白嫩，脸色仍然透着血一般的红润，头发仍然如乌木一样又黑又亮。直到有一天，一个王子来到了小矮人的房子前，拜访了七个小矮人。在小山上，他看到了白雪公主及棺材上的铭文，心里非常激动，一刻也不能平静。他对小矮人说要付给他们金钱，求他们让他把白雪公主和棺材带走。但小矮人说：“就是用世界上所有的金子来换，我们也不会同意让她离我们而去的。”王子不停地恳求，甚至哀求。看到他如此真心诚意，他们终于被他的虔诚所感动，同意让他把棺材带走。但就在他叫人把棺材抬起准备回家时，棺材被撞了一下，那块毒苹果突然从她嘴里吐了出来，白雪公主马上醒了。
