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"In olden times there lived an aged queen who was a sorceress, and her daughter was the most beautiful maiden under the sun. The old woman, however, had no other thought than how to lure mankind to destruction, and when a wooer appeared, she said that whosoever wished to have her daughter, must first perform a task, or die. Many had been dazzled by the daughter's beauty, and had actually risked this, but they never could accomplish what the old woman enjoined them to do, and then no mercy was shown, they had to kneel down, and their heads were struck off.",
"A certain king's son who had also heard of the maiden's beauty, said to his father, \"Let me go there, I want to demand her in marriage.\" \"Never,\" answered the king, \"if you were to go, it would be going to your death.\" On this the son lay down and was sick unto death, and for seven years he lay there, and no physician could heal him. When the father perceived that all hope was over, with a heavy heart he said to him, \"Go thither, and try your luck, for I know no other means of curing you.\" When the son heard that, he rose from his bed and was well again, and joyfully set out on his way.",
"And it came to pass that as he was riding across a heath, he saw from afar something like a great heap of hay laying on the ground, and when he drew nearer, he could see that it was the stomach of a man, who had laid himself down there, but the stomach looked like a small mountain. When the fat man saw the traveler, he stood up and said, \"If you are in need of any one, take me into your service.\" The prince answered, \"What can I do with such a clumsy man?\" \"Oh,\" said the stout one, \"this is nothing, when I really puff myself up, I am three thousand times fatter.\" \"If that's the case,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"",
"So the stout one followed the prince, and after a while they found another man who was lying on the ground with his ear laid to the turf. \"What are you doing there?\" asked the king's son. \"I am listening,\" replied the man. \"What are you listening to so attentively?\" \"I am listening to what is just going on in the world, for nothing escapes my ears, I even hear the grass growing.\" \"Tell me,\" said the prince, \"what you hear at the court of the old queen who has the beautiful daughter.\" Then he answered, \"I hear the whizzing of the sword that is striking off a wooer's head.\" The king's son said, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"",
"They went onwards, and then saw a pair of feet lying and part of a pair of legs, but could not see the rest of the body. When they had walked on for a great distance, they came to the body, and at last to the head also. \"Why,\" said the prince, \"what a tall rascal you are.\" \"Oh,\" replied the tall one, \"that is nothing at all yet, when I really stretch out my limbs, I am three thousand times as tall, and taller than the highest mountain on earth. I will gladly enter your service, if you will take me.\" \"Come with me,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you.\"",
"They went onwards and found a man sitting by the road who had bound up his eyes. The prince said to him, \"Have you weak eyes, that you cannot look at the light?\" \"No,\" replied the man, \"but I must not remove the bandage, for whatsoever I look at with my eyes, splits to pieces, so powerful is my glance. If you can use that, I shall be glad to serve you.\" \"Come with me,\" replied the king's son, \"I can make use of you.\"",
"They journeyed onwards and found a man who was lying in the hot sunshine, trembling and shivering all over his body, so that not a limb was still. \"How can you shiver when the sun is shining so warm?\" said the king's son. \"Alas,\" replied the man, \"I am of quite a different nature. The hotter it is, the colder I am, and the frost pierces through all my bones, and the colder it is, the hotter I am. In the midst of ice, I cannot endure the heat, nor in the midst of fire, the cold.\" \"You are a strange fellow,\" said the prince, \"but if you will enter my service, follow me.\"",
"They traveled onwards, and saw a man standing who made a long neck and looked about him, and could see over all the mountains. \"What are you looking at so eagerly?\" said the king's son. The man replied, \"I have such sharp eyes that I can see into every forest and field, and hill and valley, all over the world.\" The prince said, \"Come with me if you will, for I am still in want of such an one.\"",
"And now the king's son and his six servants came to the town where the aged queen dwelt. He did not tell her who he was, but said, \"If you will give me your beautiful daughter, I will perform any task you set me.\" The sorceress was delighted to get such a handsome youth as this into her net, and said, \"I will set you three tasks, and if you are able to perform them all, you shall be husband and master of my daughter.\" \"What is the first to be?\" \"You shall fetch me my ring which I have dropped into the red sea.\"",
"So the king's son went home to his servants and said, \"The first task is not easy. A ring is to be got out of the red sea. Come, find some way of doing it.\" Then the man with the sharp sight said, \"I will see where it is lying,\" and looked down into the water and said, \"It is hanging there, on a pointed stone.\" The tall one carried them thither, and said, \"I would soon get it out, if I could only see it.\" \"Oh, is that all,\" cried the stout one, and lay down and put his mouth to the water, on which all the waves fell into it just as if it had been a whirlpool, and he drank up the whole sea till it was as dry as a meadow. The tall one stooped down a little, and brought out the ring with his hand.",
"Then the king's son rejoiced when he had the ring, and took it to the old queen. She was astonished, and said, \"Yes, it is the right ring. You have safely performed the first task, but now comes the second. Do you see the meadow in front of my palace? Three hundred fat oxen are feeding there, and these must you eat, skin, hair, bones, horns and all, and down below in my cellar lie three hundred casks of wine, and these you must drink up as well, and if one hair of the oxen, or one little drop of the wine is left, your life will be forfeited to me.\" \"May I invite no guests to this repast?\" inquired the prince, \"No dinner is good without some company.\" The old woman laughed maliciously, and replied, \"You may invite one for the sake of companionship, but no more.\"",
"The king's son went to his servants and said to the stout one, \"You shall be my guest to-day, and shall eat your fill.\" Hereupon the stout one puffed himself up and ate the three hundred oxen without leaving one single hair, and then he asked if he was to have nothing but his breakfast. Then he drank the wine straight from the casks without feeling any need of a glass, and drained them down to their dregs.",
"When the meal was over, the prince went to the old woman, and told her that the second task also was performed. She wondered at this and said, \"No one has ever done so much before, but one task still remains,\" and she thought to herself, \"You shall not escape me, and will not keep your head on your shoulders.\" \"This night,\" said she, \"I will bring my daughter to you in your chamber, and you shall put your arms round her, but when you are sitting there together, beware of falling asleep. When twelve o'clock is striking, I will come, and if she is then no longer in your arms, you are lost.\"",
"The prince thought, \"The task is easy, I will most certainly keep my eyes open.\" Nevertheless he called his servants, told them what the old woman had said, and remarked, \"Who knows what treachery lurks behind this? Foresight is a good thing - keep watch, and take care that the maiden does not go out of my room again.\" When night fell, the old woman came with her daughter, and gave her into the princes's arms, and then the tall one wound himself round the two in a circle, and the stout one placed himself by the door, so that no living creature could enter. There the two sat, and the maiden spoke never a word, but the moon shone through the window on her face, and the prince could behold her wondrous beauty. He did nothing but gaze at her, and was filled with love and happiness, and his eyes never felt weary. This lasted until eleven o'clock, when the old woman cast such a spell over all of them that they fell asleep, and at the self-same moment the maiden was carried away.",
"Then they all slept soundly until a quarter to twelve, when the magic lost its power, and all awoke again. \"Oh, misery and misfortune,\" cried the prince, \"now I am lost.\" The faithful servants also began to lament, but the listener said, \"Be quiet, I want to listen.\" Then he listened for an instant and said, \"She is on a rock, three hundred leagues from hence, bewailing her fate. You alone, tall one, can help her, if you will stand up, you will be there in a couple of steps.\"",
"\"Yes,\" answered the tall one, \"but the one with the sharp eyes must go with me, that we may destroy the rock.\" Then the tall one took the one with bandaged eyes on his back, and in the twinkling of an eye they were on the enchanted rock. The tall one immediately took the bandage from the other's eyes, and he did but look round, and the rock shivered into a thousand pieces. Then the tall one took the maiden in his arms, carried her back in a second, then fetched his companion with the same rapidity, and before it struck twelve they were all sitting as they had sat before, quite merrily and happily. When twelve struck, the aged sorceress came stealing in with a malicious face, as much as to say, \"Now he is mine, for she believed that her daughter was on the rock three hundred leagues off.\" But when she saw her in the prince's arms, she was alarmed, and said, \"Here is one who knows more than I do.\" She dared not make any opposition, and was forced to give him her daughter. But she whispered in her ear, \"It is a disgrace to you to have to obey common people, and that you are not allowed to choose a husband to your own liking.\"",
"On this the proud heart of the maiden was filled with anger, and she meditated revenge. Next morning she caused three hundred great bundles of wood to be got together, and said to the prince that though the three tasks were performed, she would still not be his wife until someone was ready to seat himself in the midst of the wood, and bear the fire. She thought that none of his servants would let themselves be burnt for him, and that out of love for her, he himself would place himself upon it, and then she would be free. But the servants said, \"Every one of us has done something except the frosty one, he must set to work, and they put him in the middle of the pile, and set fire to it.\" Then the fire began to burn, and burnt for three days until all the wood was consumed, and when the flames had burnt out, the frosty one was standing amid the ashes, trembling like an aspen leaf, and saying, \"I never felt such a frost during the whole course of my life, if it had lasted much longer, I should have been benumbed.\"",
"As no other pretext was to be found, the beautiful maiden was now forced to take the unknown youth as a husband. But when they drove away to church, the old woman said, \"I cannot endure the disgrace,\" and sent her warriors after them with orders to cut down all who opposed them, and bring back her daughter. But the listener had sharpened his ears, and heard the secret discourse of the old woman. \"What shall we do?\" said he to the stout one. But he knew what to do, and spat out once or twice behind the carriage some of the sea-water which he had drunk, and a great lake arose in which the warriors were caught and drowned.",
"When the sorceress perceived that, she sent her mailed knights, but the listener heard the rattling of their armor, and undid the bandage from one eye of sharp-eyes, who looked for a while rather fixedly at the enemy's troops, on which they all sprang to pieces like glass. Then the youth and the maiden went on their way undisturbed, and when the two had been blessed in church, the six servants took leave, and said to their master, \"Your wishes are now satisfied, you need us no longer, we will go our way and seek our fortunes.\"",
"Half a league from the palace of the prince's father was a village near which a swineherd tended his herd, and when they came thither the prince said to his wife, \"Do you know who I really am? I am no prince, but a herder of swine, and the man who is there with that herd, is my father. We two shall have to set to work also, and help him.\" Then he alighted with her at the inn, and secretly told the innkeepers to take away her royal apparel during the night. So when she awoke in the morning, she had nothing to put on, and the innkeeper's wife gave her an old gown and a pair of worsted stockings, and at the same time seemed to consider it a great present, and said, \"If it were not for the sake of your husband I should have given you nothing at all.\" Then the princess believed that he really was a swineherd, and tended the herd with him, and thought to herself, \"I have deserved this for my haughtiness and pride.\"",
"This lasted for a week, and then she could endure it no longer, for she had sores on her feet. And now came a couple of people who asked if she knew who her husband was. \"Yes,\" she answered, \"he is a swineherd, and has just gone out with cords and ropes to try to drive a little bargain.\" But they said, \"Just come with us, and we will take you to him,\" and they took her up to the palace, and when she entered the hall, there stood her husband in kingly raiment. But she did not recognize him until he took her in his arms, kissed her, and said, \"I suffered so much for you that you, too, had to suffer for me.\" And then the wedding was celebrated, and he who has related this, wishes that he, too, had been present at it."
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"body_text": "In olden times there lived an aged queen who was a sorceress, and her daughter was the most beautiful maiden under the sun. The old woman, however, had no other thought than how to lure mankind to destruction, and when a wooer appeared, she said that whosoever wished to have her daughter, must first perform a task, or die. Many had been dazzled by the daughter's beauty, and had actually risked this, but they never could accomplish what the old woman enjoined them to do, and then no mercy was shown, they had to kneel down, and their heads were struck off.\n\nA certain king's son who had also heard of the maiden's beauty, said to his father, \"Let me go there, I want to demand her in marriage.\" \"Never,\" answered the king, \"if you were to go, it would be going to your death.\" On this the son lay down and was sick unto death, and for seven years he lay there, and no physician could heal him. When the father perceived that all hope was over, with a heavy heart he said to him, \"Go thither, and try your luck, for I know no other means of curing you.\" When the son heard that, he rose from his bed and was well again, and joyfully set out on his way.\n\nAnd it came to pass that as he was riding across a heath, he saw from afar something like a great heap of hay laying on the ground, and when he drew nearer, he could see that it was the stomach of a man, who had laid himself down there, but the stomach looked like a small mountain. When the fat man saw the traveler, he stood up and said, \"If you are in need of any one, take me into your service.\" The prince answered, \"What can I do with such a clumsy man?\" \"Oh,\" said the stout one, \"this is nothing, when I really puff myself up, I am three thousand times fatter.\" \"If that's the case,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"\n\nSo the stout one followed the prince, and after a while they found another man who was lying on the ground with his ear laid to the turf. \"What are you doing there?\" asked the king's son. \"I am listening,\" replied the man. \"What are you listening to so attentively?\" \"I am listening to what is just going on in the world, for nothing escapes my ears, I even hear the grass growing.\" \"Tell me,\" said the prince, \"what you hear at the court of the old queen who has the beautiful daughter.\" Then he answered, \"I hear the whizzing of the sword that is striking off a wooer's head.\" The king's son said, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"\n\nThey went onwards, and then saw a pair of feet lying and part of a pair of legs, but could not see the rest of the body. When they had walked on for a great distance, they came to the body, and at last to the head also. \"Why,\" said the prince, \"what a tall rascal you are.\" \"Oh,\" replied the tall one, \"that is nothing at all yet, when I really stretch out my limbs, I am three thousand times as tall, and taller than the highest mountain on earth. I will gladly enter your service, if you will take me.\" \"Come with me,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you.\"\n\nThey went onwards and found a man sitting by the road who had bound up his eyes. The prince said to him, \"Have you weak eyes, that you cannot look at the light?\" \"No,\" replied the man, \"but I must not remove the bandage, for whatsoever I look at with my eyes, splits to pieces, so powerful is my glance. If you can use that, I shall be glad to serve you.\" \"Come with me,\" replied the king's son, \"I can make use of you.\"\n\nThey journeyed onwards and found a man who was lying in the hot sunshine, trembling and shivering all over his body, so that not a limb was still. \"How can you shiver when the sun is shining so warm?\" said the king's son. \"Alas,\" replied the man, \"I am of quite a different nature. The hotter it is, the colder I am, and the frost pierces through all my bones, and the colder it is, the hotter I am. In the midst of ice, I cannot endure the heat, nor in the midst of fire, the cold.\" \"You are a strange fellow,\" said the prince, \"but if you will enter my service, follow me.\"\n\nThey traveled onwards, and saw a man standing who made a long neck and looked about him, and could see over all the mountains. \"What are you looking at so eagerly?\" said the king's son. The man replied, \"I have such sharp eyes that I can see into every forest and field, and hill and valley, all over the world.\" The prince said, \"Come with me if you will, for I am still in want of such an one.\"\n\nAnd now the king's son and his six servants came to the town where the aged queen dwelt. He did not tell her who he was, but said, \"If you will give me your beautiful daughter, I will perform any task you set me.\" The sorceress was delighted to get such a handsome youth as this into her net, and said, \"I will set you three tasks, and if you are able to perform them all, you shall be husband and master of my daughter.\" \"What is the first to be?\" \"You shall fetch me my ring which I have dropped into the red sea.\"\n\nSo the king's son went home to his servants and said, \"The first task is not easy. A ring is to be got out of the red sea. Come, find some way of doing it.\" Then the man with the sharp sight said, \"I will see where it is lying,\" and looked down into the water and said, \"It is hanging there, on a pointed stone.\" The tall one carried them thither, and said, \"I would soon get it out, if I could only see it.\" \"Oh, is that all,\" cried the stout one, and lay down and put his mouth to the water, on which all the waves fell into it just as if it had been a whirlpool, and he drank up the whole sea till it was as dry as a meadow. The tall one stooped down a little, and brought out the ring with his hand.\n\nThen the king's son rejoiced when he had the ring, and took it to the old queen. She was astonished, and said, \"Yes, it is the right ring. You have safely performed the first task, but now comes the second. Do you see the meadow in front of my palace? Three hundred fat oxen are feeding there, and these must you eat, skin, hair, bones, horns and all, and down below in my cellar lie three hundred casks of wine, and these you must drink up as well, and if one hair of the oxen, or one little drop of the wine is left, your life will be forfeited to me.\" \"May I invite no guests to this repast?\" inquired the prince, \"No dinner is good without some company.\" The old woman laughed maliciously, and replied, \"You may invite one for the sake of companionship, but no more.\"\n\nThe king's son went to his servants and said to the stout one, \"You shall be my guest to-day, and shall eat your fill.\" Hereupon the stout one puffed himself up and ate the three hundred oxen without leaving one single hair, and then he asked if he was to have nothing but his breakfast. Then he drank the wine straight from the casks without feeling any need of a glass, and drained them down to their dregs.\n\nWhen the meal was over, the prince went to the old woman, and told her that the second task also was performed. She wondered at this and said, \"No one has ever done so much before, but one task still remains,\" and she thought to herself, \"You shall not escape me, and will not keep your head on your shoulders.\" \"This night,\" said she, \"I will bring my daughter to you in your chamber, and you shall put your arms round her, but when you are sitting there together, beware of falling asleep. When twelve o'clock is striking, I will come, and if she is then no longer in your arms, you are lost.\"\n\nThe prince thought, \"The task is easy, I will most certainly keep my eyes open.\" Nevertheless he called his servants, told them what the old woman had said, and remarked, \"Who knows what treachery lurks behind this? Foresight is a good thing - keep watch, and take care that the maiden does not go out of my room again.\" When night fell, the old woman came with her daughter, and gave her into the princes's arms, and then the tall one wound himself round the two in a circle, and the stout one placed himself by the door, so that no living creature could enter. There the two sat, and the maiden spoke never a word, but the moon shone through the window on her face, and the prince could behold her wondrous beauty. He did nothing but gaze at her, and was filled with love and happiness, and his eyes never felt weary. This lasted until eleven o'clock, when the old woman cast such a spell over all of them that they fell asleep, and at the self-same moment the maiden was carried away.\n\nThen they all slept soundly until a quarter to twelve, when the magic lost its power, and all awoke again. \"Oh, misery and misfortune,\" cried the prince, \"now I am lost.\" The faithful servants also began to lament, but the listener said, \"Be quiet, I want to listen.\" Then he listened for an instant and said, \"She is on a rock, three hundred leagues from hence, bewailing her fate. You alone, tall one, can help her, if you will stand up, you will be there in a couple of steps.\"\n\n\"Yes,\" answered the tall one, \"but the one with the sharp eyes must go with me, that we may destroy the rock.\" Then the tall one took the one with bandaged eyes on his back, and in the twinkling of an eye they were on the enchanted rock. The tall one immediately took the bandage from the other's eyes, and he did but look round, and the rock shivered into a thousand pieces. Then the tall one took the maiden in his arms, carried her back in a second, then fetched his companion with the same rapidity, and before it struck twelve they were all sitting as they had sat before, quite merrily and happily. When twelve struck, the aged sorceress came stealing in with a malicious face, as much as to say, \"Now he is mine, for she believed that her daughter was on the rock three hundred leagues off.\" But when she saw her in the prince's arms, she was alarmed, and said, \"Here is one who knows more than I do.\" She dared not make any opposition, and was forced to give him her daughter. But she whispered in her ear, \"It is a disgrace to you to have to obey common people, and that you are not allowed to choose a husband to your own liking.\"\n\nOn this the proud heart of the maiden was filled with anger, and she meditated revenge. Next morning she caused three hundred great bundles of wood to be got together, and said to the prince that though the three tasks were performed, she would still not be his wife until someone was ready to seat himself in the midst of the wood, and bear the fire. She thought that none of his servants would let themselves be burnt for him, and that out of love for her, he himself would place himself upon it, and then she would be free. But the servants said, \"Every one of us has done something except the frosty one, he must set to work, and they put him in the middle of the pile, and set fire to it.\" Then the fire began to burn, and burnt for three days until all the wood was consumed, and when the flames had burnt out, the frosty one was standing amid the ashes, trembling like an aspen leaf, and saying, \"I never felt such a frost during the whole course of my life, if it had lasted much longer, I should have been benumbed.\"\n\nAs no other pretext was to be found, the beautiful maiden was now forced to take the unknown youth as a husband. But when they drove away to church, the old woman said, \"I cannot endure the disgrace,\" and sent her warriors after them with orders to cut down all who opposed them, and bring back her daughter. But the listener had sharpened his ears, and heard the secret discourse of the old woman. \"What shall we do?\" said he to the stout one. But he knew what to do, and spat out once or twice behind the carriage some of the sea-water which he had drunk, and a great lake arose in which the warriors were caught and drowned.\n\nWhen the sorceress perceived that, she sent her mailed knights, but the listener heard the rattling of their armor, and undid the bandage from one eye of sharp-eyes, who looked for a while rather fixedly at the enemy's troops, on which they all sprang to pieces like glass. Then the youth and the maiden went on their way undisturbed, and when the two had been blessed in church, the six servants took leave, and said to their master, \"Your wishes are now satisfied, you need us no longer, we will go our way and seek our fortunes.\"\n\nHalf a league from the palace of the prince's father was a village near which a swineherd tended his herd, and when they came thither the prince said to his wife, \"Do you know who I really am? I am no prince, but a herder of swine, and the man who is there with that herd, is my father. We two shall have to set to work also, and help him.\" Then he alighted with her at the inn, and secretly told the innkeepers to take away her royal apparel during the night. So when she awoke in the morning, she had nothing to put on, and the innkeeper's wife gave her an old gown and a pair of worsted stockings, and at the same time seemed to consider it a great present, and said, \"If it were not for the sake of your husband I should have given you nothing at all.\" Then the princess believed that he really was a swineherd, and tended the herd with him, and thought to herself, \"I have deserved this for my haughtiness and pride.\"\n\nThis lasted for a week, and then she could endure it no longer, for she had sores on her feet. And now came a couple of people who asked if she knew who her husband was. \"Yes,\" she answered, \"he is a swineherd, and has just gone out with cords and ropes to try to drive a little bargain.\" But they said, \"Just come with us, and we will take you to him,\" and they took her up to the palace, and when she entered the hall, there stood her husband in kingly raiment. But she did not recognize him until he took her in his arms, kissed her, and said, \"I suffered so much for you that you, too, had to suffer for me.\" And then the wedding was celebrated, and he who has related this, wishes that he, too, had been present at it.",
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"In olden times there lived an aged queen who was a sorceress, and her daughter was the most beautiful maiden under the sun. The old woman, however, had no other thought than how to lure mankind to destruction, and when a wooer appeared, she said that whosoever wished to have her daughter, must first perform a task, or die. Many had been dazzled by the daughter's beauty, and had actually risked this, but they never could accomplish what the old woman enjoined them to do, and then no mercy was shown, they had to kneel down, and their heads were struck off.",
"A certain king's son who had also heard of the maiden's beauty, said to his father, \"Let me go there, I want to demand her in marriage.\" \"Never,\" answered the king, \"if you were to go, it would be going to your death.\" On this the son lay down and was sick unto death, and for seven years he lay there, and no physician could heal him. When the father perceived that all hope was over, with a heavy heart he said to him, \"Go thither, and try your luck, for I know no other means of curing you.\" When the son heard that, he rose from his bed and was well again, and joyfully set out on his way.",
"And it came to pass that as he was riding across a heath, he saw from afar something like a great heap of hay laying on the ground, and when he drew nearer, he could see that it was the stomach of a man, who had laid himself down there, but the stomach looked like a small mountain. When the fat man saw the traveler, he stood up and said, \"If you are in need of any one, take me into your service.\" The prince answered, \"What can I do with such a clumsy man?\" \"Oh,\" said the stout one, \"this is nothing, when I really puff myself up, I am three thousand times fatter.\" \"If that's the case,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"",
"So the stout one followed the prince, and after a while they found another man who was lying on the ground with his ear laid to the turf. \"What are you doing there?\" asked the king's son. \"I am listening,\" replied the man. \"What are you listening to so attentively?\" \"I am listening to what is just going on in the world, for nothing escapes my ears, I even hear the grass growing.\" \"Tell me,\" said the prince, \"what you hear at the court of the old queen who has the beautiful daughter.\" Then he answered, \"I hear the whizzing of the sword that is striking off a wooer's head.\" The king's son said, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"",
"They went onwards, and then saw a pair of feet lying and part of a pair of legs, but could not see the rest of the body. When they had walked on for a great distance, they came to the body, and at last to the head also. \"Why,\" said the prince, \"what a tall rascal you are.\" \"Oh,\" replied the tall one, \"that is nothing at all yet, when I really stretch out my limbs, I am three thousand times as tall, and taller than the highest mountain on earth. I will gladly enter your service, if you will take me.\" \"Come with me,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you.\"",
"They went onwards and found a man sitting by the road who had bound up his eyes. The prince said to him, \"Have you weak eyes, that you cannot look at the light?\" \"No,\" replied the man, \"but I must not remove the bandage, for whatsoever I look at with my eyes, splits to pieces, so powerful is my glance. If you can use that, I shall be glad to serve you.\" \"Come with me,\" replied the king's son, \"I can make use of you.\"",
"They journeyed onwards and found a man who was lying in the hot sunshine, trembling and shivering all over his body, so that not a limb was still. \"How can you shiver when the sun is shining so warm?\" said the king's son. \"Alas,\" replied the man, \"I am of quite a different nature. The hotter it is, the colder I am, and the frost pierces through all my bones, and the colder it is, the hotter I am. In the midst of ice, I cannot endure the heat, nor in the midst of fire, the cold.\" \"You are a strange fellow,\" said the prince, \"but if you will enter my service, follow me.\"",
"They traveled onwards, and saw a man standing who made a long neck and looked about him, and could see over all the mountains. \"What are you looking at so eagerly?\" said the king's son. The man replied, \"I have such sharp eyes that I can see into every forest and field, and hill and valley, all over the world.\" The prince said, \"Come with me if you will, for I am still in want of such an one.\"",
"And now the king's son and his six servants came to the town where the aged queen dwelt. He did not tell her who he was, but said, \"If you will give me your beautiful daughter, I will perform any task you set me.\" The sorceress was delighted to get such a handsome youth as this into her net, and said, \"I will set you three tasks, and if you are able to perform them all, you shall be husband and master of my daughter.\" \"What is the first to be?\" \"You shall fetch me my ring which I have dropped into the red sea.\"",
"So the king's son went home to his servants and said, \"The first task is not easy. A ring is to be got out of the red sea. Come, find some way of doing it.\" Then the man with the sharp sight said, \"I will see where it is lying,\" and looked down into the water and said, \"It is hanging there, on a pointed stone.\" The tall one carried them thither, and said, \"I would soon get it out, if I could only see it.\" \"Oh, is that all,\" cried the stout one, and lay down and put his mouth to the water, on which all the waves fell into it just as if it had been a whirlpool, and he drank up the whole sea till it was as dry as a meadow. The tall one stooped down a little, and brought out the ring with his hand.",
"Then the king's son rejoiced when he had the ring, and took it to the old queen. She was astonished, and said, \"Yes, it is the right ring. You have safely performed the first task, but now comes the second. Do you see the meadow in front of my palace? Three hundred fat oxen are feeding there, and these must you eat, skin, hair, bones, horns and all, and down below in my cellar lie three hundred casks of wine, and these you must drink up as well, and if one hair of the oxen, or one little drop of the wine is left, your life will be forfeited to me.\" \"May I invite no guests to this repast?\" inquired the prince, \"No dinner is good without some company.\" The old woman laughed maliciously, and replied, \"You may invite one for the sake of companionship, but no more.\"",
"The king's son went to his servants and said to the stout one, \"You shall be my guest to-day, and shall eat your fill.\" Hereupon the stout one puffed himself up and ate the three hundred oxen without leaving one single hair, and then he asked if he was to have nothing but his breakfast. Then he drank the wine straight from the casks without feeling any need of a glass, and drained them down to their dregs.",
"When the meal was over, the prince went to the old woman, and told her that the second task also was performed. She wondered at this and said, \"No one has ever done so much before, but one task still remains,\" and she thought to herself, \"You shall not escape me, and will not keep your head on your shoulders.\" \"This night,\" said she, \"I will bring my daughter to you in your chamber, and you shall put your arms round her, but when you are sitting there together, beware of falling asleep. When twelve o'clock is striking, I will come, and if she is then no longer in your arms, you are lost.\"",
"The prince thought, \"The task is easy, I will most certainly keep my eyes open.\" Nevertheless he called his servants, told them what the old woman had said, and remarked, \"Who knows what treachery lurks behind this? Foresight is a good thing - keep watch, and take care that the maiden does not go out of my room again.\" When night fell, the old woman came with her daughter, and gave her into the princes's arms, and then the tall one wound himself round the two in a circle, and the stout one placed himself by the door, so that no living creature could enter. There the two sat, and the maiden spoke never a word, but the moon shone through the window on her face, and the prince could behold her wondrous beauty. He did nothing but gaze at her, and was filled with love and happiness, and his eyes never felt weary. This lasted until eleven o'clock, when the old woman cast such a spell over all of them that they fell asleep, and at the self-same moment the maiden was carried away.",
"Then they all slept soundly until a quarter to twelve, when the magic lost its power, and all awoke again. \"Oh, misery and misfortune,\" cried the prince, \"now I am lost.\" The faithful servants also began to lament, but the listener said, \"Be quiet, I want to listen.\" Then he listened for an instant and said, \"She is on a rock, three hundred leagues from hence, bewailing her fate. You alone, tall one, can help her, if you will stand up, you will be there in a couple of steps.\"",
"\"Yes,\" answered the tall one, \"but the one with the sharp eyes must go with me, that we may destroy the rock.\" Then the tall one took the one with bandaged eyes on his back, and in the twinkling of an eye they were on the enchanted rock. The tall one immediately took the bandage from the other's eyes, and he did but look round, and the rock shivered into a thousand pieces. Then the tall one took the maiden in his arms, carried her back in a second, then fetched his companion with the same rapidity, and before it struck twelve they were all sitting as they had sat before, quite merrily and happily. When twelve struck, the aged sorceress came stealing in with a malicious face, as much as to say, \"Now he is mine, for she believed that her daughter was on the rock three hundred leagues off.\" But when she saw her in the prince's arms, she was alarmed, and said, \"Here is one who knows more than I do.\" She dared not make any opposition, and was forced to give him her daughter. But she whispered in her ear, \"It is a disgrace to you to have to obey common people, and that you are not allowed to choose a husband to your own liking.\"",
"On this the proud heart of the maiden was filled with anger, and she meditated revenge. Next morning she caused three hundred great bundles of wood to be got together, and said to the prince that though the three tasks were performed, she would still not be his wife until someone was ready to seat himself in the midst of the wood, and bear the fire. She thought that none of his servants would let themselves be burnt for him, and that out of love for her, he himself would place himself upon it, and then she would be free. But the servants said, \"Every one of us has done something except the frosty one, he must set to work, and they put him in the middle of the pile, and set fire to it.\" Then the fire began to burn, and burnt for three days until all the wood was consumed, and when the flames had burnt out, the frosty one was standing amid the ashes, trembling like an aspen leaf, and saying, \"I never felt such a frost during the whole course of my life, if it had lasted much longer, I should have been benumbed.\"",
"As no other pretext was to be found, the beautiful maiden was now forced to take the unknown youth as a husband. But when they drove away to church, the old woman said, \"I cannot endure the disgrace,\" and sent her warriors after them with orders to cut down all who opposed them, and bring back her daughter. But the listener had sharpened his ears, and heard the secret discourse of the old woman. \"What shall we do?\" said he to the stout one. But he knew what to do, and spat out once or twice behind the carriage some of the sea-water which he had drunk, and a great lake arose in which the warriors were caught and drowned.",
"When the sorceress perceived that, she sent her mailed knights, but the listener heard the rattling of their armor, and undid the bandage from one eye of sharp-eyes, who looked for a while rather fixedly at the enemy's troops, on which they all sprang to pieces like glass. Then the youth and the maiden went on their way undisturbed, and when the two had been blessed in church, the six servants took leave, and said to their master, \"Your wishes are now satisfied, you need us no longer, we will go our way and seek our fortunes.\"",
"Half a league from the palace of the prince's father was a village near which a swineherd tended his herd, and when they came thither the prince said to his wife, \"Do you know who I really am? I am no prince, but a herder of swine, and the man who is there with that herd, is my father. We two shall have to set to work also, and help him.\" Then he alighted with her at the inn, and secretly told the innkeepers to take away her royal apparel during the night. So when she awoke in the morning, she had nothing to put on, and the innkeeper's wife gave her an old gown and a pair of worsted stockings, and at the same time seemed to consider it a great present, and said, \"If it were not for the sake of your husband I should have given you nothing at all.\" Then the princess believed that he really was a swineherd, and tended the herd with him, and thought to herself, \"I have deserved this for my haughtiness and pride.\"",
"This lasted for a week, and then she could endure it no longer, for she had sores on her feet. And now came a couple of people who asked if she knew who her husband was. \"Yes,\" she answered, \"he is a swineherd, and has just gone out with cords and ropes to try to drive a little bargain.\" But they said, \"Just come with us, and we will take you to him,\" and they took her up to the palace, and when she entered the hall, there stood her husband in kingly raiment. But she did not recognize him until he took her in his arms, kissed her, and said, \"I suffered so much for you that you, too, had to suffer for me.\" And then the wedding was celebrated, and he who has related this, wishes that he, too, had been present at it."
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"clean_text": "In olden times there lived an aged queen who was a sorceress, and her daughter was the most beautiful maiden under the sun. The old woman, however, had no other thought than how to lure mankind to destruction, and when a wooer appeared, she said that whosoever wished to have her daughter, must first perform a task, or die. Many had been dazzled by the daughter's beauty, and had actually risked this, but they never could accomplish what the old woman enjoined them to do, and then no mercy was shown, they had to kneel down, and their heads were struck off.\n\nA certain king's son who had also heard of the maiden's beauty, said to his father, \"Let me go there, I want to demand her in marriage.\" \"Never,\" answered the king, \"if you were to go, it would be going to your death.\" On this the son lay down and was sick unto death, and for seven years he lay there, and no physician could heal him. When the father perceived that all hope was over, with a heavy heart he said to him, \"Go thither, and try your luck, for I know no other means of curing you.\" When the son heard that, he rose from his bed and was well again, and joyfully set out on his way.\n\nAnd it came to pass that as he was riding across a heath, he saw from afar something like a great heap of hay laying on the ground, and when he drew nearer, he could see that it was the stomach of a man, who had laid himself down there, but the stomach looked like a small mountain. When the fat man saw the traveler, he stood up and said, \"If you are in need of any one, take me into your service.\" The prince answered, \"What can I do with such a clumsy man?\" \"Oh,\" said the stout one, \"this is nothing, when I really puff myself up, I am three thousand times fatter.\" \"If that's the case,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"\n\nSo the stout one followed the prince, and after a while they found another man who was lying on the ground with his ear laid to the turf. \"What are you doing there?\" asked the king's son. \"I am listening,\" replied the man. \"What are you listening to so attentively?\" \"I am listening to what is just going on in the world, for nothing escapes my ears, I even hear the grass growing.\" \"Tell me,\" said the prince, \"what you hear at the court of the old queen who has the beautiful daughter.\" Then he answered, \"I hear the whizzing of the sword that is striking off a wooer's head.\" The king's son said, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"\n\nThey went onwards, and then saw a pair of feet lying and part of a pair of legs, but could not see the rest of the body. When they had walked on for a great distance, they came to the body, and at last to the head also. \"Why,\" said the prince, \"what a tall rascal you are.\" \"Oh,\" replied the tall one, \"that is nothing at all yet, when I really stretch out my limbs, I am three thousand times as tall, and taller than the highest mountain on earth. I will gladly enter your service, if you will take me.\" \"Come with me,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you.\"\n\nThey went onwards and found a man sitting by the road who had bound up his eyes. The prince said to him, \"Have you weak eyes, that you cannot look at the light?\" \"No,\" replied the man, \"but I must not remove the bandage, for whatsoever I look at with my eyes, splits to pieces, so powerful is my glance. If you can use that, I shall be glad to serve you.\" \"Come with me,\" replied the king's son, \"I can make use of you.\"\n\nThey journeyed onwards and found a man who was lying in the hot sunshine, trembling and shivering all over his body, so that not a limb was still. \"How can you shiver when the sun is shining so warm?\" said the king's son. \"Alas,\" replied the man, \"I am of quite a different nature. The hotter it is, the colder I am, and the frost pierces through all my bones, and the colder it is, the hotter I am. In the midst of ice, I cannot endure the heat, nor in the midst of fire, the cold.\" \"You are a strange fellow,\" said the prince, \"but if you will enter my service, follow me.\"\n\nThey traveled onwards, and saw a man standing who made a long neck and looked about him, and could see over all the mountains. \"What are you looking at so eagerly?\" said the king's son. The man replied, \"I have such sharp eyes that I can see into every forest and field, and hill and valley, all over the world.\" The prince said, \"Come with me if you will, for I am still in want of such an one.\"\n\nAnd now the king's son and his six servants came to the town where the aged queen dwelt. He did not tell her who he was, but said, \"If you will give me your beautiful daughter, I will perform any task you set me.\" The sorceress was delighted to get such a handsome youth as this into her net, and said, \"I will set you three tasks, and if you are able to perform them all, you shall be husband and master of my daughter.\" \"What is the first to be?\" \"You shall fetch me my ring which I have dropped into the red sea.\"\n\nSo the king's son went home to his servants and said, \"The first task is not easy. A ring is to be got out of the red sea. Come, find some way of doing it.\" Then the man with the sharp sight said, \"I will see where it is lying,\" and looked down into the water and said, \"It is hanging there, on a pointed stone.\" The tall one carried them thither, and said, \"I would soon get it out, if I could only see it.\" \"Oh, is that all,\" cried the stout one, and lay down and put his mouth to the water, on which all the waves fell into it just as if it had been a whirlpool, and he drank up the whole sea till it was as dry as a meadow. The tall one stooped down a little, and brought out the ring with his hand.\n\nThen the king's son rejoiced when he had the ring, and took it to the old queen. She was astonished, and said, \"Yes, it is the right ring. You have safely performed the first task, but now comes the second. Do you see the meadow in front of my palace? Three hundred fat oxen are feeding there, and these must you eat, skin, hair, bones, horns and all, and down below in my cellar lie three hundred casks of wine, and these you must drink up as well, and if one hair of the oxen, or one little drop of the wine is left, your life will be forfeited to me.\" \"May I invite no guests to this repast?\" inquired the prince, \"No dinner is good without some company.\" The old woman laughed maliciously, and replied, \"You may invite one for the sake of companionship, but no more.\"\n\nThe king's son went to his servants and said to the stout one, \"You shall be my guest to-day, and shall eat your fill.\" Hereupon the stout one puffed himself up and ate the three hundred oxen without leaving one single hair, and then he asked if he was to have nothing but his breakfast. Then he drank the wine straight from the casks without feeling any need of a glass, and drained them down to their dregs.\n\nWhen the meal was over, the prince went to the old woman, and told her that the second task also was performed. She wondered at this and said, \"No one has ever done so much before, but one task still remains,\" and she thought to herself, \"You shall not escape me, and will not keep your head on your shoulders.\" \"This night,\" said she, \"I will bring my daughter to you in your chamber, and you shall put your arms round her, but when you are sitting there together, beware of falling asleep. When twelve o'clock is striking, I will come, and if she is then no longer in your arms, you are lost.\"\n\nThe prince thought, \"The task is easy, I will most certainly keep my eyes open.\" Nevertheless he called his servants, told them what the old woman had said, and remarked, \"Who knows what treachery lurks behind this? Foresight is a good thing - keep watch, and take care that the maiden does not go out of my room again.\" When night fell, the old woman came with her daughter, and gave her into the princes's arms, and then the tall one wound himself round the two in a circle, and the stout one placed himself by the door, so that no living creature could enter. There the two sat, and the maiden spoke never a word, but the moon shone through the window on her face, and the prince could behold her wondrous beauty. He did nothing but gaze at her, and was filled with love and happiness, and his eyes never felt weary. This lasted until eleven o'clock, when the old woman cast such a spell over all of them that they fell asleep, and at the self-same moment the maiden was carried away.\n\nThen they all slept soundly until a quarter to twelve, when the magic lost its power, and all awoke again. \"Oh, misery and misfortune,\" cried the prince, \"now I am lost.\" The faithful servants also began to lament, but the listener said, \"Be quiet, I want to listen.\" Then he listened for an instant and said, \"She is on a rock, three hundred leagues from hence, bewailing her fate. You alone, tall one, can help her, if you will stand up, you will be there in a couple of steps.\"\n\n\"Yes,\" answered the tall one, \"but the one with the sharp eyes must go with me, that we may destroy the rock.\" Then the tall one took the one with bandaged eyes on his back, and in the twinkling of an eye they were on the enchanted rock. The tall one immediately took the bandage from the other's eyes, and he did but look round, and the rock shivered into a thousand pieces. Then the tall one took the maiden in his arms, carried her back in a second, then fetched his companion with the same rapidity, and before it struck twelve they were all sitting as they had sat before, quite merrily and happily. When twelve struck, the aged sorceress came stealing in with a malicious face, as much as to say, \"Now he is mine, for she believed that her daughter was on the rock three hundred leagues off.\" But when she saw her in the prince's arms, she was alarmed, and said, \"Here is one who knows more than I do.\" She dared not make any opposition, and was forced to give him her daughter. But she whispered in her ear, \"It is a disgrace to you to have to obey common people, and that you are not allowed to choose a husband to your own liking.\"\n\nOn this the proud heart of the maiden was filled with anger, and she meditated revenge. Next morning she caused three hundred great bundles of wood to be got together, and said to the prince that though the three tasks were performed, she would still not be his wife until someone was ready to seat himself in the midst of the wood, and bear the fire. She thought that none of his servants would let themselves be burnt for him, and that out of love for her, he himself would place himself upon it, and then she would be free. But the servants said, \"Every one of us has done something except the frosty one, he must set to work, and they put him in the middle of the pile, and set fire to it.\" Then the fire began to burn, and burnt for three days until all the wood was consumed, and when the flames had burnt out, the frosty one was standing amid the ashes, trembling like an aspen leaf, and saying, \"I never felt such a frost during the whole course of my life, if it had lasted much longer, I should have been benumbed.\"\n\nAs no other pretext was to be found, the beautiful maiden was now forced to take the unknown youth as a husband. But when they drove away to church, the old woman said, \"I cannot endure the disgrace,\" and sent her warriors after them with orders to cut down all who opposed them, and bring back her daughter. But the listener had sharpened his ears, and heard the secret discourse of the old woman. \"What shall we do?\" said he to the stout one. But he knew what to do, and spat out once or twice behind the carriage some of the sea-water which he had drunk, and a great lake arose in which the warriors were caught and drowned.\n\nWhen the sorceress perceived that, she sent her mailed knights, but the listener heard the rattling of their armor, and undid the bandage from one eye of sharp-eyes, who looked for a while rather fixedly at the enemy's troops, on which they all sprang to pieces like glass. Then the youth and the maiden went on their way undisturbed, and when the two had been blessed in church, the six servants took leave, and said to their master, \"Your wishes are now satisfied, you need us no longer, we will go our way and seek our fortunes.\"\n\nHalf a league from the palace of the prince's father was a village near which a swineherd tended his herd, and when they came thither the prince said to his wife, \"Do you know who I really am? I am no prince, but a herder of swine, and the man who is there with that herd, is my father. We two shall have to set to work also, and help him.\" Then he alighted with her at the inn, and secretly told the innkeepers to take away her royal apparel during the night. So when she awoke in the morning, she had nothing to put on, and the innkeeper's wife gave her an old gown and a pair of worsted stockings, and at the same time seemed to consider it a great present, and said, \"If it were not for the sake of your husband I should have given you nothing at all.\" Then the princess believed that he really was a swineherd, and tended the herd with him, and thought to herself, \"I have deserved this for my haughtiness and pride.\"\n\nThis lasted for a week, and then she could endure it no longer, for she had sores on her feet. And now came a couple of people who asked if she knew who her husband was. \"Yes,\" she answered, \"he is a swineherd, and has just gone out with cords and ropes to try to drive a little bargain.\" But they said, \"Just come with us, and we will take you to him,\" and they took her up to the palace, and when she entered the hall, there stood her husband in kingly raiment. But she did not recognize him until he took her in his arms, kissed her, and said, \"I suffered so much for you that you, too, had to suffer for me.\" And then the wedding was celebrated, and he who has related this, wishes that he, too, had been present at it.",
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"In olden times there lived an aged queen who was a sorceress, and her daughter was the most beautiful maiden under the sun. The old woman, however, had no other thought than how to lure mankind to destruction, and when a wooer appeared, she said that whosoever wished to have her daughter, must first perform a task, or die. Many had been dazzled by the daughter's beauty, and had actually risked this, but they never could accomplish what the old woman enjoined them to do, and then no mercy was shown, they had to kneel down, and their heads were struck off.",
"A certain king's son who had also heard of the maiden's beauty, said to his father, \"Let me go there, I want to demand her in marriage.\" \"Never,\" answered the king, \"if you were to go, it would be going to your death.\" On this the son lay down and was sick unto death, and for seven years he lay there, and no physician could heal him. When the father perceived that all hope was over, with a heavy heart he said to him, \"Go thither, and try your luck, for I know no other means of curing you.\" When the son heard that, he rose from his bed and was well again, and joyfully set out on his way.",
"And it came to pass that as he was riding across a heath, he saw from afar something like a great heap of hay laying on the ground, and when he drew nearer, he could see that it was the stomach of a man, who had laid himself down there, but the stomach looked like a small mountain. When the fat man saw the traveler, he stood up and said, \"If you are in need of any one, take me into your service.\" The prince answered, \"What can I do with such a clumsy man?\" \"Oh,\" said the stout one, \"this is nothing, when I really puff myself up, I am three thousand times fatter.\" \"If that's the case,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"",
"So the stout one followed the prince, and after a while they found another man who was lying on the ground with his ear laid to the turf. \"What are you doing there?\" asked the king's son. \"I am listening,\" replied the man. \"What are you listening to so attentively?\" \"I am listening to what is just going on in the world, for nothing escapes my ears, I even hear the grass growing.\" \"Tell me,\" said the prince, \"what you hear at the court of the old queen who has the beautiful daughter.\" Then he answered, \"I hear the whizzing of the sword that is striking off a wooer's head.\" The king's son said, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"",
"They went onwards, and then saw a pair of feet lying and part of a pair of legs, but could not see the rest of the body. When they had walked on for a great distance, they came to the body, and at last to the head also. \"Why,\" said the prince, \"what a tall rascal you are.\" \"Oh,\" replied the tall one, \"that is nothing at all yet, when I really stretch out my limbs, I am three thousand times as tall, and taller than the highest mountain on earth. I will gladly enter your service, if you will take me.\" \"Come with me,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you.\"",
"They went onwards and found a man sitting by the road who had bound up his eyes. The prince said to him, \"Have you weak eyes, that you cannot look at the light?\" \"No,\" replied the man, \"but I must not remove the bandage, for whatsoever I look at with my eyes, splits to pieces, so powerful is my glance. If you can use that, I shall be glad to serve you.\" \"Come with me,\" replied the king's son, \"I can make use of you.\"",
"They journeyed onwards and found a man who was lying in the hot sunshine, trembling and shivering all over his body, so that not a limb was still. \"How can you shiver when the sun is shining so warm?\" said the king's son. \"Alas,\" replied the man, \"I am of quite a different nature. The hotter it is, the colder I am, and the frost pierces through all my bones, and the colder it is, the hotter I am. In the midst of ice, I cannot endure the heat, nor in the midst of fire, the cold.\" \"You are a strange fellow,\" said the prince, \"but if you will enter my service, follow me.\"",
"They traveled onwards, and saw a man standing who made a long neck and looked about him, and could see over all the mountains. \"What are you looking at so eagerly?\" said the king's son. The man replied, \"I have such sharp eyes that I can see into every forest and field, and hill and valley, all over the world.\" The prince said, \"Come with me if you will, for I am still in want of such an one.\"",
"And now the king's son and his six servants came to the town where the aged queen dwelt. He did not tell her who he was, but said, \"If you will give me your beautiful daughter, I will perform any task you set me.\" The sorceress was delighted to get such a handsome youth as this into her net, and said, \"I will set you three tasks, and if you are able to perform them all, you shall be husband and master of my daughter.\" \"What is the first to be?\" \"You shall fetch me my ring which I have dropped into the red sea.\"",
"So the king's son went home to his servants and said, \"The first task is not easy. A ring is to be got out of the red sea. Come, find some way of doing it.\" Then the man with the sharp sight said, \"I will see where it is lying,\" and looked down into the water and said, \"It is hanging there, on a pointed stone.\" The tall one carried them thither, and said, \"I would soon get it out, if I could only see it.\" \"Oh, is that all,\" cried the stout one, and lay down and put his mouth to the water, on which all the waves fell into it just as if it had been a whirlpool, and he drank up the whole sea till it was as dry as a meadow. The tall one stooped down a little, and brought out the ring with his hand.",
"Then the king's son rejoiced when he had the ring, and took it to the old queen. She was astonished, and said, \"Yes, it is the right ring. You have safely performed the first task, but now comes the second. Do you see the meadow in front of my palace? Three hundred fat oxen are feeding there, and these must you eat, skin, hair, bones, horns and all, and down below in my cellar lie three hundred casks of wine, and these you must drink up as well, and if one hair of the oxen, or one little drop of the wine is left, your life will be forfeited to me.\" \"May I invite no guests to this repast?\" inquired the prince, \"No dinner is good without some company.\" The old woman laughed maliciously, and replied, \"You may invite one for the sake of companionship, but no more.\"",
"The king's son went to his servants and said to the stout one, \"You shall be my guest to-day, and shall eat your fill.\" Hereupon the stout one puffed himself up and ate the three hundred oxen without leaving one single hair, and then he asked if he was to have nothing but his breakfast. Then he drank the wine straight from the casks without feeling any need of a glass, and drained them down to their dregs.",
"When the meal was over, the prince went to the old woman, and told her that the second task also was performed. She wondered at this and said, \"No one has ever done so much before, but one task still remains,\" and she thought to herself, \"You shall not escape me, and will not keep your head on your shoulders.\" \"This night,\" said she, \"I will bring my daughter to you in your chamber, and you shall put your arms round her, but when you are sitting there together, beware of falling asleep. When twelve o'clock is striking, I will come, and if she is then no longer in your arms, you are lost.\"",
"The prince thought, \"The task is easy, I will most certainly keep my eyes open.\" Nevertheless he called his servants, told them what the old woman had said, and remarked, \"Who knows what treachery lurks behind this? Foresight is a good thing - keep watch, and take care that the maiden does not go out of my room again.\" When night fell, the old woman came with her daughter, and gave her into the princes's arms, and then the tall one wound himself round the two in a circle, and the stout one placed himself by the door, so that no living creature could enter. There the two sat, and the maiden spoke never a word, but the moon shone through the window on her face, and the prince could behold her wondrous beauty.",
"He did nothing but gaze at her, and was filled with love and happiness, and his eyes never felt weary. This lasted until eleven o'clock, when the old woman cast such a spell over all of them that they fell asleep, and at the self-same moment the maiden was carried away.",
"Then they all slept soundly until a quarter to twelve, when the magic lost its power, and all awoke again. \"Oh, misery and misfortune,\" cried the prince, \"now I am lost.\" The faithful servants also began to lament, but the listener said, \"Be quiet, I want to listen.\" Then he listened for an instant and said, \"She is on a rock, three hundred leagues from hence, bewailing her fate. You alone, tall one, can help her, if you will stand up, you will be there in a couple of steps.\"",
"\"Yes,\" answered the tall one, \"but the one with the sharp eyes must go with me, that we may destroy the rock.\" Then the tall one took the one with bandaged eyes on his back, and in the twinkling of an eye they were on the enchanted rock. The tall one immediately took the bandage from the other's eyes, and he did but look round, and the rock shivered into a thousand pieces. Then the tall one took the maiden in his arms, carried her back in a second, then fetched his companion with the same rapidity, and before it struck twelve they were all sitting as they had sat before, quite merrily and happily. When twelve struck, the aged sorceress came stealing in with a malicious face, as much as to say, \"Now he is mine, for she believed that her daughter was on the rock three hundred leagues off.\"",
"But when she saw her in the prince's arms, she was alarmed, and said, \"Here is one who knows more than I do.\" She dared not make any opposition, and was forced to give him her daughter. But she whispered in her ear, \"It is a disgrace to you to have to obey common people, and that you are not allowed to choose a husband to your own liking.\"",
"On this the proud heart of the maiden was filled with anger, and she meditated revenge. Next morning she caused three hundred great bundles of wood to be got together, and said to the prince that though the three tasks were performed, she would still not be his wife until someone was ready to seat himself in the midst of the wood, and bear the fire. She thought that none of his servants would let themselves be burnt for him, and that out of love for her, he himself would place himself upon it, and then she would be free. But the servants said, \"Every one of us has done something except the frosty one, he must set to work, and they put him in the middle of the pile, and set fire to it.\"",
"Then the fire began to burn, and burnt for three days until all the wood was consumed, and when the flames had burnt out, the frosty one was standing amid the ashes, trembling like an aspen leaf, and saying, \"I never felt such a frost during the whole course of my life, if it had lasted much longer, I should have been benumbed.\"",
"As no other pretext was to be found, the beautiful maiden was now forced to take the unknown youth as a husband. But when they drove away to church, the old woman said, \"I cannot endure the disgrace,\" and sent her warriors after them with orders to cut down all who opposed them, and bring back her daughter. But the listener had sharpened his ears, and heard the secret discourse of the old woman. \"What shall we do?\" said he to the stout one. But he knew what to do, and spat out once or twice behind the carriage some of the sea-water which he had drunk, and a great lake arose in which the warriors were caught and drowned.",
"When the sorceress perceived that, she sent her mailed knights, but the listener heard the rattling of their armor, and undid the bandage from one eye of sharp-eyes, who looked for a while rather fixedly at the enemy's troops, on which they all sprang to pieces like glass. Then the youth and the maiden went on their way undisturbed, and when the two had been blessed in church, the six servants took leave, and said to their master, \"Your wishes are now satisfied, you need us no longer, we will go our way and seek our fortunes.\"",
"Half a league from the palace of the prince's father was a village near which a swineherd tended his herd, and when they came thither the prince said to his wife, \"Do you know who I really am? I am no prince, but a herder of swine, and the man who is there with that herd, is my father. We two shall have to set to work also, and help him.\" Then he alighted with her at the inn, and secretly told the innkeepers to take away her royal apparel during the night. So when she awoke in the morning, she had nothing to put on, and the innkeeper's wife gave her an old gown and a pair of worsted stockings, and at the same time seemed to consider it a great present, and said, \"If it were not for the sake of your husband I should have given you nothing at all.\"",
"Then the princess believed that he really was a swineherd, and tended the herd with him, and thought to herself, \"I have deserved this for my haughtiness and pride.\"",
"This lasted for a week, and then she could endure it no longer, for she had sores on her feet. And now came a couple of people who asked if she knew who her husband was. \"Yes,\" she answered, \"he is a swineherd, and has just gone out with cords and ropes to try to drive a little bargain.\" But they said, \"Just come with us, and we will take you to him,\" and they took her up to the palace, and when she entered the hall, there stood her husband in kingly raiment. But she did not recognize him until he took her in his arms, kissed her, and said, \"I suffered so much for you that you, too, had to suffer for me.\" And then the wedding was celebrated, and he who has related this, wishes that he, too, had been present at it."
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"In olden times there lived an aged queen who was a sorceress, and her daughter was the most beautiful maiden under the sun. The old woman, however, had no other thought than how to lure mankind to destruction, and when a wooer appeared, she said that whosoever wished to have her daughter, must first perform a task, or die. Many had been dazzled by the daughter's beauty, and had actually risked this, but they never could accomplish what the old woman enjoined them to do, and then no mercy was shown, they had to kneel down, and their heads were struck off.",
"A certain king's son who had also heard of the maiden's beauty, said to his father, \"Let me go there, I want to demand her in marriage.\" \"Never,\" answered the king, \"if you were to go, it would be going to your death.\" On this the son lay down and was sick unto death, and for seven years he lay there, and no physician could heal him. When the father perceived that all hope was over, with a heavy heart he said to him, \"Go thither, and try your luck, for I know no other means of curing you.\" When the son heard that, he rose from his bed and was well again, and joyfully set out on his way.",
"And it came to pass that as he was riding across a heath, he saw from afar something like a great heap of hay lying on the ground, and when he drew nearer, he could see that it was the stomach of a man, who had laid himself down there, but the stomach looked like a small mountain. When the fat man saw the traveler, he stood up and said, \"If you are in need of any one, take me into your service.\" The prince answered, \"What can I do with such a clumsy man?\" \"Oh,\" said the stout one, \"this is nothing, when I really puff myself up, I am three thousand times fatter.\" \"If that is the case,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"",
"So the stout one followed the prince, and after a while they found another man who was lying on the ground with his ear laid to the turf. \"What are you doing there?\" asked the king's son. \"I am listening,\" replied the man. \"What are you listening to so attentively?\" \"I am listening to what is just going on in the world, for nothing escapes my ears, I even hear the grass growing.\" \"Tell me,\" said the prince, \"what you hear at the court of the old queen who has the beautiful daughter.\" Then he answered, \"I hear the whizzing of the sword that is striking off a wooer's head.\" The king's son said, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"",
"They went onwards, and then saw a pair of feet lying and part of a pair of legs, but could not see the rest of the body. When they had walked on for a great distance, they came to the body, and at last to the head also. \"Why,\" said the prince, \"what a tall rascal you are.\" \"Oh,\" replied the tall one, \"that is nothing at all yet, when I really stretch out my limbs, I am three thousand times as tall, and taller than the highest mountain on earth. I will gladly enter your service, if you will take me.\" \"Come with me,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you.\"",
"They went onwards and found a man sitting by the road who had bound up his eyes. The prince said to him, \"Have you weak eyes, that you cannot look at the light?\" \"No,\" replied the man, \"but I must not remove the bandage, for whatsoever I look at with my eyes, splits to pieces, so powerful is my glance. If you can use that, I shall be glad to serve you.\" \"Come with me,\" replied the king's son, \"I can make use of you.\"",
"They journeyed onwards and found a man who was lying in the hot sunshine, trembling and shivering all over his body, so that not a limb was still. \"How can you shiver when the sun is shining so warm?\" said the king's son. \"Alas,\" replied the man, \"I am of quite a different nature. The hotter it is, the colder I am, and the frost pierces through all my bones, and the colder it is, the hotter I am. In the midst of ice, I cannot endure the heat, nor in the midst of fire, the cold.\" \"You are a strange fellow,\" said the prince, \"but if you will enter my service, follow me.\"",
"They traveled onwards, and saw a man standing who made a long neck and looked about him, and could see over all the mountains. \"What are you looking at so eagerly?\" said the king's son. The man replied, \"I have such sharp eyes that I can see into every forest and field, and hill and valley, all over the world.\" The prince said, \"Come with me if you will, for I am still in want of such an one.\"",
"And now the king's son and his six servants came to the town where the aged queen dwelt. He did not tell her who he was, but said, \"If you will give me your beautiful daughter, I will perform any task you set me.\" The sorceress was delighted to get such a handsome youth as this into her net, and said, \"I will set you three tasks, and if you are able to perform them all, you shall be husband and master of my daughter.\" \"What is the first to be?\" \"You shall fetch me my ring which I have dropped into the red sea.\"",
"So the king's son went home to his servants and said, \"The first task is not easy. A ring is to be got out of the red sea. Come, find some way of doing it.\" Then the man with the sharp sight said, \"I will see where it is lying,\" and looked down into the water and said, \"It is hanging there, on a pointed stone.\" The tall one carried them thither, and said, \"I would soon get it out, if I could only see it.\" \"Oh, is that all,\" cried the stout one, and lay down and put his mouth to the water, on which all the waves fell into it just as if it had been a whirlpool, and he drank up the whole sea till it was as dry as a meadow. The tall one stooped down a little, and brought out the ring with his hand.",
"Then the king's son rejoiced when he had the ring, and took it to the old queen. She was astonished, and said, \"Yes, it is the right ring. You have safely performed the first task, but now comes the second. Do you see the meadow in front of my palace? Three hundred fat oxen are feeding there, and these must you eat, skin, hair, bones, horns and all, and down below in my cellar lie three hundred casks of wine, and these you must drink up as well, and if one hair of the oxen, or one little drop of the wine is left, your life will be forfeited to me.\" \"May I invite no guests to this repast?\" inquired the prince, \"No dinner is good without some company.\" The old woman laughed maliciously, and replied, \"You may invite one for the sake of companionship, but no more.\"",
"The king's son went to his servants and said to the stout one, \"You shall be my guest to-day, and shall eat your fill.\" Hereupon the stout one puffed himself up and ate the three hundred oxen without leaving one single hair, and then he asked if he was to have nothing but his breakfast. Then he drank the wine straight from the casks without feeling any need of a glass, and drained them down to their dregs.",
"When the meal was over, the prince went to the old woman, and told her that the second task also was performed. She wondered at this and said, \"No one has ever done so much before, but one task still remains,\" and she thought to herself, \"You shall not escape me, and will not keep your head on your shoulders.\" \"This night,\" said she, \"I will bring my daughter to you in your chamber, and you shall put your arms round her, but when you are sitting there together, beware of falling asleep. When twelve o'clock is striking, I will come, and if she is then no longer in your arms, you are lost.\"",
"The prince thought, \"The task is easy, I will most certainly keep my eyes open.\" Nevertheless he called his servants, told them what the old woman had said, and remarked, \"Who knows what treachery lurks behind this? Foresight is a good thing - keep watch, and take care that the maiden does not go out of my room again.\" When night fell, the old woman came with her daughter, and gave her into the princes's arms, and then the tall one wound himself round the two in a circle, and the stout one placed himself by the door, so that no living creature could enter. There the two sat, and the maiden spoke never a word, but the moon shone through the window on her face, and the prince could behold her wondrous beauty. He did nothing but gaze at her, and was filled with love and happiness, and his eyes never felt weary. This lasted until eleven o'clock, when the old woman cast such a spell over all of them that they fell asleep, and at the self-same moment the maiden was carried away.",
"Then they all slept soundly until a quarter to twelve, when the magic lost its power, and all awoke again. \"Oh, misery and misfortune,\" cried the prince, \"now I am lost.\" The faithful servants also began to lament, but the listener said, \"Be quiet, I want to listen.\" Then he listened for an instant and said, \"She is on a rock, three hundred leagues from hence, bewailing her fate. You alone, tall one, can help her, if you will stand up, you will be there in a couple of steps.\"",
"\"Yes,\" answered the tall one, \"but the one with the sharp eyes must go with me, that we may destroy the rock.\" Then the tall one took the one with bandaged eyes on his back, and in the twinkling of an eye they were on the enchanted rock. The tall one immediately took the bandage from the other's eyes, and he did but look round, and the rock shivered into a thousand pieces. Then the tall one took the maiden in his arms, carried her back in a second, then fetched his companion with the same rapidity, and before it struck twelve they were all sitting as they had sat before, quite merrily and happily. When twelve struck, the aged sorceress came stealing in with a malicious face, as much as to say, \"Now he is mine, for she believed that her daughter was on the rock three hundred leagues off.\" But when she saw her in the prince's arms, she was alarmed, and said, \"Here is one who knows more than I do.\" She dared not make any opposition, and was forced to give him her daughter. But she whispered in her ear, \"It is a disgrace to you to have to obey common people, and that you are not allowed to choose a husband to your own liking.\"",
"On this the proud heart of the maiden was filled with anger, and she meditated revenge. Next morning she caused three hundred great bundles of wood to be got together, and said to the prince that though the three tasks were performed, she would still not be his wife until someone was ready to seat himself in the midst of the wood, and bear the fire. She thought that none of his servants would let themselves be burnt for him, and that out of love for her, he himself would place himself upon it, and then she would be free. But the servants said, \"Every one of us has done something except the frosty one, he must set to work, and they put him in the middle of the pile, and set fire to it.\" Then the fire began to burn, and burnt for three days until all the wood was consumed, and when the flames had burnt out, the frosty one was standing amid the ashes, trembling like an aspen leaf, and saying, \"I never felt such a frost during the whole course of my life, if it had lasted much longer, I should have been benumbed.\"",
"As no other pretext was to be found, the beautiful maiden was now forced to take the unknown youth as a husband. But when they drove away to church, the old woman said, \"I cannot endure the disgrace,\" and sent her warriors after them with orders to cut down all who opposed them, and bring back her daughter. But the listener had sharpened his ears, and heard the secret discourse of the old woman. \"What shall we do?\" said he to the stout one. But he knew what to do, and spat out once or twice behind the carriage some of the sea-water which he had drunk, and a great lake arose in which the warriors were caught and drowned.",
"When the sorceress perceived that, she sent her mailed knights, but the listener heard the rattling of their armor, and undid the bandage from one eye of sharp-eyes, who looked for a while rather fixedly at the enemy's troops, on which they all sprang to pieces like glass. Then the youth and the maiden went on their way undisturbed, and when the two had been blessed in church, the six servants took leave, and said to their master, \"Your wishes are now satisfied, you need us no longer, we will go our way and seek our fortunes.\"",
"Half a league from the palace of the prince's father was a village near which a swineherd tended his herd, and when they came thither the prince said to his wife, \"Do you know who I really am? I am no prince, but a herder of swine, and the man who is there with that herd, is my father. We two shall have to set to work also, and help him.\" Then he alighted with her at the inn, and secretly told the innkeepers to take away her royal apparel during the night. So when she awoke in the morning, she had nothing to put on, and the innkeeper's wife gave her an old gown and a pair of worsted stockings, and at the same time seemed to consider it a great present, and said, \"If it were not for the sake of your husband I should have given you nothing at all.\" Then the princess believed that he really was a swineherd, and tended the herd with him, and thought to herself, \"I have deserved this for my haughtiness and pride.\"",
"This lasted for a week, and then she could endure it no longer, for she had sores on her feet. And now came a couple of people who asked if she knew who her husband was. \"Yes,\" she answered, \"he is a swineherd, and has just gone out with cords and ropes to try to drive a little bargain.\" But they said, \"Just come with us, and we will take you to him,\" and they took her up to the palace, and when she entered the hall, there stood her husband in kingly raiment. But she did not recognize him until he took her in his arms, kissed her, and said, \"I suffered so much for you that you, too, had to suffer for me.\" And then the wedding was celebrated, and he who has related this, wishes that he, too, had been present at it."
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"speech_safe_text": "In olden times there lived an aged queen who was a sorceress, and her daughter was the most beautiful maiden under the sun. The old woman, however, had no other thought than how to lure mankind to destruction, and when a wooer appeared, she said that whosoever wished to have her daughter, must first perform a task, or die. Many had been dazzled by the daughter's beauty, and had actually risked this, but they never could accomplish what the old woman enjoined them to do, and then no mercy was shown, they had to kneel down, and their heads were struck off.\n\nA certain king's son who had also heard of the maiden's beauty, said to his father, \"Let me go there, I want to demand her in marriage.\" \"Never,\" answered the king, \"if you were to go, it would be going to your death.\" On this the son lay down and was sick unto death, and for seven years he lay there, and no physician could heal him. When the father perceived that all hope was over, with a heavy heart he said to him, \"Go thither, and try your luck, for I know no other means of curing you.\" When the son heard that, he rose from his bed and was well again, and joyfully set out on his way.\n\nAnd it came to pass that as he was riding across a heath, he saw from afar something like a great heap of hay lying on the ground, and when he drew nearer, he could see that it was the stomach of a man, who had laid himself down there, but the stomach looked like a small mountain. When the fat man saw the traveler, he stood up and said, \"If you are in need of any one, take me into your service.\" The prince answered, \"What can I do with such a clumsy man?\" \"Oh,\" said the stout one, \"this is nothing, when I really puff myself up, I am three thousand times fatter.\" \"If that is the case,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"\n\nSo the stout one followed the prince, and after a while they found another man who was lying on the ground with his ear laid to the turf. \"What are you doing there?\" asked the king's son. \"I am listening,\" replied the man. \"What are you listening to so attentively?\" \"I am listening to what is just going on in the world, for nothing escapes my ears, I even hear the grass growing.\" \"Tell me,\" said the prince, \"what you hear at the court of the old queen who has the beautiful daughter.\" Then he answered, \"I hear the whizzing of the sword that is striking off a wooer's head.\" The king's son said, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"\n\nThey went onwards, and then saw a pair of feet lying and part of a pair of legs, but could not see the rest of the body. When they had walked on for a great distance, they came to the body, and at last to the head also. \"Why,\" said the prince, \"what a tall rascal you are.\" \"Oh,\" replied the tall one, \"that is nothing at all yet, when I really stretch out my limbs, I am three thousand times as tall, and taller than the highest mountain on earth. I will gladly enter your service, if you will take me.\" \"Come with me,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you.\"\n\nThey went onwards and found a man sitting by the road who had bound up his eyes. The prince said to him, \"Have you weak eyes, that you cannot look at the light?\" \"No,\" replied the man, \"but I must not remove the bandage, for whatsoever I look at with my eyes, splits to pieces, so powerful is my glance. If you can use that, I shall be glad to serve you.\" \"Come with me,\" replied the king's son, \"I can make use of you.\"\n\nThey journeyed onwards and found a man who was lying in the hot sunshine, trembling and shivering all over his body, so that not a limb was still. \"How can you shiver when the sun is shining so warm?\" said the king's son. \"Alas,\" replied the man, \"I am of quite a different nature. The hotter it is, the colder I am, and the frost pierces through all my bones, and the colder it is, the hotter I am. In the midst of ice, I cannot endure the heat, nor in the midst of fire, the cold.\" \"You are a strange fellow,\" said the prince, \"but if you will enter my service, follow me.\"\n\nThey traveled onwards, and saw a man standing who made a long neck and looked about him, and could see over all the mountains. \"What are you looking at so eagerly?\" said the king's son. The man replied, \"I have such sharp eyes that I can see into every forest and field, and hill and valley, all over the world.\" The prince said, \"Come with me if you will, for I am still in want of such an one.\"\n\nAnd now the king's son and his six servants came to the town where the aged queen dwelt. He did not tell her who he was, but said, \"If you will give me your beautiful daughter, I will perform any task you set me.\" The sorceress was delighted to get such a handsome youth as this into her net, and said, \"I will set you three tasks, and if you are able to perform them all, you shall be husband and master of my daughter.\" \"What is the first to be?\" \"You shall fetch me my ring which I have dropped into the red sea.\"\n\nSo the king's son went home to his servants and said, \"The first task is not easy. A ring is to be got out of the red sea. Come, find some way of doing it.\" Then the man with the sharp sight said, \"I will see where it is lying,\" and looked down into the water and said, \"It is hanging there, on a pointed stone.\" The tall one carried them thither, and said, \"I would soon get it out, if I could only see it.\" \"Oh, is that all,\" cried the stout one, and lay down and put his mouth to the water, on which all the waves fell into it just as if it had been a whirlpool, and he drank up the whole sea till it was as dry as a meadow. The tall one stooped down a little, and brought out the ring with his hand.\n\nThen the king's son rejoiced when he had the ring, and took it to the old queen. She was astonished, and said, \"Yes, it is the right ring. You have safely performed the first task, but now comes the second. Do you see the meadow in front of my palace? Three hundred fat oxen are feeding there, and these must you eat, skin, hair, bones, horns and all, and down below in my cellar lie three hundred casks of wine, and these you must drink up as well, and if one hair of the oxen, or one little drop of the wine is left, your life will be forfeited to me.\" \"May I invite no guests to this repast?\" inquired the prince, \"No dinner is good without some company.\" The old woman laughed maliciously, and replied, \"You may invite one for the sake of companionship, but no more.\"\n\nThe king's son went to his servants and said to the stout one, \"You shall be my guest to-day, and shall eat your fill.\" Hereupon the stout one puffed himself up and ate the three hundred oxen without leaving one single hair, and then he asked if he was to have nothing but his breakfast. Then he drank the wine straight from the casks without feeling any need of a glass, and drained them down to their dregs.\n\nWhen the meal was over, the prince went to the old woman, and told her that the second task also was performed. She wondered at this and said, \"No one has ever done so much before, but one task still remains,\" and she thought to herself, \"You shall not escape me, and will not keep your head on your shoulders.\" \"This night,\" said she, \"I will bring my daughter to you in your chamber, and you shall put your arms round her, but when you are sitting there together, beware of falling asleep. When twelve o'clock is striking, I will come, and if she is then no longer in your arms, you are lost.\"\n\nThe prince thought, \"The task is easy, I will most certainly keep my eyes open.\" Nevertheless he called his servants, told them what the old woman had said, and remarked, \"Who knows what treachery lurks behind this? Foresight is a good thing - keep watch, and take care that the maiden does not go out of my room again.\" When night fell, the old woman came with her daughter, and gave her into the princes's arms, and then the tall one wound himself round the two in a circle, and the stout one placed himself by the door, so that no living creature could enter. There the two sat, and the maiden spoke never a word, but the moon shone through the window on her face, and the prince could behold her wondrous beauty. He did nothing but gaze at her, and was filled with love and happiness, and his eyes never felt weary. This lasted until eleven o'clock, when the old woman cast such a spell over all of them that they fell asleep, and at the self-same moment the maiden was carried away.\n\nThen they all slept soundly until a quarter to twelve, when the magic lost its power, and all awoke again. \"Oh, misery and misfortune,\" cried the prince, \"now I am lost.\" The faithful servants also began to lament, but the listener said, \"Be quiet, I want to listen.\" Then he listened for an instant and said, \"She is on a rock, three hundred leagues from hence, bewailing her fate. You alone, tall one, can help her, if you will stand up, you will be there in a couple of steps.\"\n\n\"Yes,\" answered the tall one, \"but the one with the sharp eyes must go with me, that we may destroy the rock.\" Then the tall one took the one with bandaged eyes on his back, and in the twinkling of an eye they were on the enchanted rock. The tall one immediately took the bandage from the other's eyes, and he did but look round, and the rock shivered into a thousand pieces. Then the tall one took the maiden in his arms, carried her back in a second, then fetched his companion with the same rapidity, and before it struck twelve they were all sitting as they had sat before, quite merrily and happily. When twelve struck, the aged sorceress came stealing in with a malicious face, as much as to say, \"Now he is mine, for she believed that her daughter was on the rock three hundred leagues off.\" But when she saw her in the prince's arms, she was alarmed, and said, \"Here is one who knows more than I do.\" She dared not make any opposition, and was forced to give him her daughter. But she whispered in her ear, \"It is a disgrace to you to have to obey common people, and that you are not allowed to choose a husband to your own liking.\"\n\nOn this the proud heart of the maiden was filled with anger, and she meditated revenge. Next morning she caused three hundred great bundles of wood to be got together, and said to the prince that though the three tasks were performed, she would still not be his wife until someone was ready to seat himself in the midst of the wood, and bear the fire. She thought that none of his servants would let themselves be burnt for him, and that out of love for her, he himself would place himself upon it, and then she would be free. But the servants said, \"Every one of us has done something except the frosty one, he must set to work, and they put him in the middle of the pile, and set fire to it.\" Then the fire began to burn, and burnt for three days until all the wood was consumed, and when the flames had burnt out, the frosty one was standing amid the ashes, trembling like an aspen leaf, and saying, \"I never felt such a frost during the whole course of my life, if it had lasted much longer, I should have been benumbed.\"\n\nAs no other pretext was to be found, the beautiful maiden was now forced to take the unknown youth as a husband. But when they drove away to church, the old woman said, \"I cannot endure the disgrace,\" and sent her warriors after them with orders to cut down all who opposed them, and bring back her daughter. But the listener had sharpened his ears, and heard the secret discourse of the old woman. \"What shall we do?\" said he to the stout one. But he knew what to do, and spat out once or twice behind the carriage some of the sea-water which he had drunk, and a great lake arose in which the warriors were caught and drowned.\n\nWhen the sorceress perceived that, she sent her mailed knights, but the listener heard the rattling of their armor, and undid the bandage from one eye of sharp-eyes, who looked for a while rather fixedly at the enemy's troops, on which they all sprang to pieces like glass. Then the youth and the maiden went on their way undisturbed, and when the two had been blessed in church, the six servants took leave, and said to their master, \"Your wishes are now satisfied, you need us no longer, we will go our way and seek our fortunes.\"\n\nHalf a league from the palace of the prince's father was a village near which a swineherd tended his herd, and when they came thither the prince said to his wife, \"Do you know who I really am? I am no prince, but a herder of swine, and the man who is there with that herd, is my father. We two shall have to set to work also, and help him.\" Then he alighted with her at the inn, and secretly told the innkeepers to take away her royal apparel during the night. So when she awoke in the morning, she had nothing to put on, and the innkeeper's wife gave her an old gown and a pair of worsted stockings, and at the same time seemed to consider it a great present, and said, \"If it were not for the sake of your husband I should have given you nothing at all.\" Then the princess believed that he really was a swineherd, and tended the herd with him, and thought to herself, \"I have deserved this for my haughtiness and pride.\"\n\nThis lasted for a week, and then she could endure it no longer, for she had sores on her feet. And now came a couple of people who asked if she knew who her husband was. \"Yes,\" she answered, \"he is a swineherd, and has just gone out with cords and ropes to try to drive a little bargain.\" But they said, \"Just come with us, and we will take you to him,\" and they took her up to the palace, and when she entered the hall, there stood her husband in kingly raiment. But she did not recognize him until he took her in his arms, kissed her, and said, \"I suffered so much for you that you, too, had to suffer for me.\" And then the wedding was celebrated, and he who has related this, wishes that he, too, had been present at it.",
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"A certain king's son who had also heard of the maiden's beauty, said to his father, \"Let me go there, I want to demand her in marriage.\" \"Never,\" answered the king, \"if you were to go, it would be going to your death.\" On this the son lay down and was sick unto death, and for seven years he lay there, and no physician could heal him. When the father perceived that all hope was over, with a heavy heart he said to him, \"Go thither, and try your luck, for I know no other means of curing you.\" When the son heard that, he rose from his bed and was well again, and joyfully set out on his way.",
"And it came to pass that as he was riding across a heath, he saw from afar something like a great heap of hay lying on the ground, and when he drew nearer, he could see that it was the stomach of a man, who had laid himself down there, but the stomach looked like a small mountain. When the fat man saw the traveler, he stood up and said, \"If you are in need of any one, take me into your service.\" The prince answered, \"What can I do with such a clumsy man?\" \"Oh,\" said the stout one, \"this is nothing, when I really puff myself up, I am three thousand times fatter.\" \"If that is the case,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"",
"So the stout one followed the prince, and after a while they found another man who was lying on the ground with his ear laid to the turf. \"What are you doing there?\" asked the king's son. \"I am listening,\" replied the man. \"What are you listening to so attentively?\" \"I am listening to what is just going on in the world, for nothing escapes my ears, I even hear the grass growing.\" \"Tell me,\" said the prince, \"what you hear at the court of the old queen who has the beautiful daughter.\" Then he answered, \"I hear the whizzing of the sword that is striking off a wooer's head.\" The king's son said, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"",
"They went onwards, and then saw a pair of feet lying and part of a pair of legs, but could not see the rest of the body. When they had walked on for a great distance, they came to the body, and at last to the head also. \"Why,\" said the prince, \"what a tall rascal you are.\" \"Oh,\" replied the tall one, \"that is nothing at all yet, when I really stretch out my limbs, I am three thousand times as tall, and taller than the highest mountain on earth. I will gladly enter your service, if you will take me.\" \"Come with me,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you.\"",
"They went onwards and found a man sitting by the road who had bound up his eyes. The prince said to him, \"Have you weak eyes, that you cannot look at the light?\" \"No,\" replied the man, \"but I must not remove the bandage, for whatsoever I look at with my eyes, splits to pieces, so powerful is my glance. If you can use that, I shall be glad to serve you.\" \"Come with me,\" replied the king's son, \"I can make use of you.\"",
"They journeyed onwards and found a man who was lying in the hot sunshine, trembling and shivering all over his body, so that not a limb was still. \"How can you shiver when the sun is shining so warm?\" said the king's son. \"Alas,\" replied the man, \"I am of quite a different nature. The hotter it is, the colder I am, and the frost pierces through all my bones, and the colder it is, the hotter I am. In the midst of ice, I cannot endure the heat, nor in the midst of fire, the cold.\" \"You are a strange fellow,\" said the prince, \"but if you will enter my service, follow me.\"",
"They traveled onwards, and saw a man standing who made a long neck and looked about him, and could see over all the mountains. \"What are you looking at so eagerly?\" said the king's son. The man replied, \"I have such sharp eyes that I can see into every forest and field, and hill and valley, all over the world.\" The prince said, \"Come with me if you will, for I am still in want of such an one.\"",
"And now the king's son and his six servants came to the town where the aged queen dwelt. He did not tell her who he was, but said, \"If you will give me your beautiful daughter, I will perform any task you set me.\" The sorceress was delighted to get such a handsome youth as this into her net, and said, \"I will set you three tasks, and if you are able to perform them all, you shall be husband and master of my daughter.\" \"What is the first to be?\" \"You shall fetch me my ring which I have dropped into the red sea.\"",
"So the king's son went home to his servants and said, \"The first task is not easy. A ring is to be got out of the red sea. Come, find some way of doing it.\" Then the man with the sharp sight said, \"I will see where it is lying,\" and looked down into the water and said, \"It is hanging there, on a pointed stone.\" The tall one carried them thither, and said, \"I would soon get it out, if I could only see it.\" \"Oh, is that all,\" cried the stout one, and lay down and put his mouth to the water, on which all the waves fell into it just as if it had been a whirlpool, and he drank up the whole sea till it was as dry as a meadow. The tall one stooped down a little, and brought out the ring with his hand.",
"Then the king's son rejoiced when he had the ring, and took it to the old queen. She was astonished, and said, \"Yes, it is the right ring. You have safely performed the first task, but now comes the second. Do you see the meadow in front of my palace? Three hundred fat oxen are feeding there, and these must you eat, skin, hair, bones, horns and all, and down below in my cellar lie three hundred casks of wine, and these you must drink up as well, and if one hair of the oxen, or one little drop of the wine is left, your life will be forfeited to me.\" \"May I invite no guests to this repast?\" inquired the prince, \"No dinner is good without some company.\" The old woman laughed maliciously, and replied, \"You may invite one for the sake of companionship, but no more.\"",
"The king's son went to his servants and said to the stout one, \"You shall be my guest to-day, and shall eat your fill.\" Hereupon the stout one puffed himself up and ate the three hundred oxen without leaving one single hair, and then he asked if he was to have nothing but his breakfast. Then he drank the wine straight from the casks without feeling any need of a glass, and drained them down to their dregs.",
"When the meal was over, the prince went to the old woman, and told her that the second task also was performed. She wondered at this and said, \"No one has ever done so much before, but one task still remains,\" and she thought to herself, \"You shall not escape me, and will not keep your head on your shoulders.\" \"This night,\" said she, \"I will bring my daughter to you in your chamber, and you shall put your arms round her, but when you are sitting there together, beware of falling asleep. When twelve o'clock is striking, I will come, and if she is then no longer in your arms, you are lost.\"",
"The prince thought, \"The task is easy, I will most certainly keep my eyes open.\" Nevertheless he called his servants, told them what the old woman had said, and remarked, \"Who knows what treachery lurks behind this? Foresight is a good thing - keep watch, and take care that the maiden does not go out of my room again.\" When night fell, the old woman came with her daughter, and gave her into the princes's arms, and then the tall one wound himself round the two in a circle, and the stout one placed himself by the door, so that no living creature could enter. There the two sat, and the maiden spoke never a word, but the moon shone through the window on her face, and the prince could behold her wondrous beauty.",
"He did nothing but gaze at her, and was filled with love and happiness, and his eyes never felt weary. This lasted until eleven o'clock, when the old woman cast such a spell over all of them that they fell asleep, and at the self-same moment the maiden was carried away.",
"Then they all slept soundly until a quarter to twelve, when the magic lost its power, and all awoke again. \"Oh, misery and misfortune,\" cried the prince, \"now I am lost.\" The faithful servants also began to lament, but the listener said, \"Be quiet, I want to listen.\" Then he listened for an instant and said, \"She is on a rock, three hundred leagues from hence, bewailing her fate. You alone, tall one, can help her, if you will stand up, you will be there in a couple of steps.\"",
"\"Yes,\" answered the tall one, \"but the one with the sharp eyes must go with me, that we may destroy the rock.\" Then the tall one took the one with bandaged eyes on his back, and in the twinkling of an eye they were on the enchanted rock. The tall one immediately took the bandage from the other's eyes, and he did but look round, and the rock shivered into a thousand pieces. Then the tall one took the maiden in his arms, carried her back in a second, then fetched his companion with the same rapidity, and before it struck twelve they were all sitting as they had sat before, quite merrily and happily. When twelve struck, the aged sorceress came stealing in with a malicious face, as much as to say, \"Now he is mine, for she believed that her daughter was on the rock three hundred leagues off.\"",
"But when she saw her in the prince's arms, she was alarmed, and said, \"Here is one who knows more than I do.\" She dared not make any opposition, and was forced to give him her daughter. But she whispered in her ear, \"It is a disgrace to you to have to obey common people, and that you are not allowed to choose a husband to your own liking.\"",
"On this the proud heart of the maiden was filled with anger, and she meditated revenge. Next morning she caused three hundred great bundles of wood to be got together, and said to the prince that though the three tasks were performed, she would still not be his wife until someone was ready to seat himself in the midst of the wood, and bear the fire. She thought that none of his servants would let themselves be burnt for him, and that out of love for her, he himself would place himself upon it, and then she would be free. But the servants said, \"Every one of us has done something except the frosty one, he must set to work, and they put him in the middle of the pile, and set fire to it.\"",
"Then the fire began to burn, and burnt for three days until all the wood was consumed, and when the flames had burnt out, the frosty one was standing amid the ashes, trembling like an aspen leaf, and saying, \"I never felt such a frost during the whole course of my life, if it had lasted much longer, I should have been benumbed.\"",
"As no other pretext was to be found, the beautiful maiden was now forced to take the unknown youth as a husband. But when they drove away to church, the old woman said, \"I cannot endure the disgrace,\" and sent her warriors after them with orders to cut down all who opposed them, and bring back her daughter. But the listener had sharpened his ears, and heard the secret discourse of the old woman. \"What shall we do?\" said he to the stout one. But he knew what to do, and spat out once or twice behind the carriage some of the sea-water which he had drunk, and a great lake arose in which the warriors were caught and drowned.",
"When the sorceress perceived that, she sent her mailed knights, but the listener heard the rattling of their armor, and undid the bandage from one eye of sharp-eyes, who looked for a while rather fixedly at the enemy's troops, on which they all sprang to pieces like glass. Then the youth and the maiden went on their way undisturbed, and when the two had been blessed in church, the six servants took leave, and said to their master, \"Your wishes are now satisfied, you need us no longer, we will go our way and seek our fortunes.\"",
"Half a league from the palace of the prince's father was a village near which a swineherd tended his herd, and when they came thither the prince said to his wife, \"Do you know who I really am? I am no prince, but a herder of swine, and the man who is there with that herd, is my father. We two shall have to set to work also, and help him.\" Then he alighted with her at the inn, and secretly told the innkeepers to take away her royal apparel during the night. So when she awoke in the morning, she had nothing to put on, and the innkeeper's wife gave her an old gown and a pair of worsted stockings, and at the same time seemed to consider it a great present, and said, \"If it were not for the sake of your husband I should have given you nothing at all.\"",
"Then the princess believed that he really was a swineherd, and tended the herd with him, and thought to herself, \"I have deserved this for my haughtiness and pride.\"",
"This lasted for a week, and then she could endure it no longer, for she had sores on her feet. And now came a couple of people who asked if she knew who her husband was. \"Yes,\" she answered, \"he is a swineherd, and has just gone out with cords and ropes to try to drive a little bargain.\" But they said, \"Just come with us, and we will take you to him,\" and they took her up to the palace, and when she entered the hall, there stood her husband in kingly raiment. But she did not recognize him until he took her in his arms, kissed her, and said, \"I suffered so much for you that you, too, had to suffer for me.\" And then the wedding was celebrated, and he who has related this, wishes that he, too, had been present at it."
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"In olden times there lived an aged queen who was a sorceress, and her daughter was the most beautiful maiden under the sun. The old woman, however, had no other thought than how to lure mankind to destruction, and when a wooer appeared, she said that whosoever wished to have her daughter, must first perform a task, or die. Many had been dazzled by the daughter's beauty, and had actually risked this, but they never could accomplish what the old woman enjoined them to do, and then no mercy was shown, they had to kneel down, and their heads were struck off.",
"A certain king's son who had also heard of the maiden's beauty, said to his father, \"Let me go there, I want to demand her in marriage.\" \"Never,\" answered the king, \"if you were to go, it would be going to your death.\" On this the son lay down and was sick unto death, and for seven years he lay there, and no physician could heal him. When the father perceived that all hope was over, with a heavy heart he said to him, \"Go thither, and try your luck, for I know no other means of curing you.\" When the son heard that, he rose from his bed and was well again, and joyfully set out on his way.",
"And it came to pass that as he was riding across a heath, he saw from afar something like a great heap of hay lying on the ground, and when he drew nearer, he could see that it was the stomach of a man, who had laid himself down there, but the stomach looked like a small mountain. When the fat man saw the traveler, he stood up and said, \"If you are in need of any one, take me into your service.\" The prince answered, \"What can I do with such a clumsy man?\" \"Oh,\" said the stout one, \"this is nothing, when I really puff myself up, I am three thousand times fatter.\" \"If that is the case,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"",
"So the stout one followed the prince, and after a while they found another man who was lying on the ground with his ear laid to the turf. \"What are you doing there?\" asked the king's son. \"I am listening,\" replied the man. \"What are you listening to so attentively?\" \"I am listening to what is just going on in the world, for nothing escapes my ears, I even hear the grass growing.\" \"Tell me,\" said the prince, \"what you hear at the court of the old queen who has the beautiful daughter.\" Then he answered, \"I hear the whizzing of the sword that is striking off a wooer's head.\" The king's son said, \"I can make use of you, come with me.\"",
"They went onwards, and then saw a pair of feet lying and part of a pair of legs, but could not see the rest of the body. When they had walked on for a great distance, they came to the body, and at last to the head also. \"Why,\" said the prince, \"what a tall rascal you are.\" \"Oh,\" replied the tall one, \"that is nothing at all yet, when I really stretch out my limbs, I am three thousand times as tall, and taller than the highest mountain on earth. I will gladly enter your service, if you will take me.\" \"Come with me,\" said the prince, \"I can make use of you.\"",
"They went onwards and found a man sitting by the road who had bound up his eyes. The prince said to him, \"Have you weak eyes, that you cannot look at the light?\" \"No,\" replied the man, \"but I must not remove the bandage, for whatsoever I look at with my eyes, splits to pieces, so powerful is my glance. If you can use that, I shall be glad to serve you.\" \"Come with me,\" replied the king's son, \"I can make use of you.\"",
"They journeyed onwards and found a man who was lying in the hot sunshine, trembling and shivering all over his body, so that not a limb was still. \"How can you shiver when the sun is shining so warm?\" said the king's son. \"Alas,\" replied the man, \"I am of quite a different nature. The hotter it is, the colder I am, and the frost pierces through all my bones, and the colder it is, the hotter I am. In the midst of ice, I cannot endure the heat, nor in the midst of fire, the cold.\" \"You are a strange fellow,\" said the prince, \"but if you will enter my service, follow me.\"",
"They traveled onwards, and saw a man standing who made a long neck and looked about him, and could see over all the mountains. \"What are you looking at so eagerly?\" said the king's son. The man replied, \"I have such sharp eyes that I can see into every forest and field, and hill and valley, all over the world.\" The prince said, \"Come with me if you will, for I am still in want of such an one.\"",
"And now the king's son and his six servants came to the town where the aged queen dwelt. He did not tell her who he was, but said, \"If you will give me your beautiful daughter, I will perform any task you set me.\" The sorceress was delighted to get such a handsome youth as this into her net, and said, \"I will set you three tasks, and if you are able to perform them all, you shall be husband and master of my daughter.\" \"What is the first to be?\" \"You shall fetch me my ring which I have dropped into the red sea.\"",
"So the king's son went home to his servants and said, \"The first task is not easy. A ring is to be got out of the red sea. Come, find some way of doing it.\" Then the man with the sharp sight said, \"I will see where it is lying,\" and looked down into the water and said, \"It is hanging there, on a pointed stone.\" The tall one carried them thither, and said, \"I would soon get it out, if I could only see it.\" \"Oh, is that all,\" cried the stout one, and lay down and put his mouth to the water, on which all the waves fell into it just as if it had been a whirlpool, and he drank up the whole sea till it was as dry as a meadow. The tall one stooped down a little, and brought out the ring with his hand.",
"Then the king's son rejoiced when he had the ring, and took it to the old queen. She was astonished, and said, \"Yes, it is the right ring. You have safely performed the first task, but now comes the second. Do you see the meadow in front of my palace? Three hundred fat oxen are feeding there, and these must you eat, skin, hair, bones, horns and all, and down below in my cellar lie three hundred casks of wine, and these you must drink up as well, and if one hair of the oxen, or one little drop of the wine is left, your life will be forfeited to me.\" \"May I invite no guests to this repast?\" inquired the prince, \"No dinner is good without some company.\" The old woman laughed maliciously, and replied, \"You may invite one for the sake of companionship, but no more.\"",
"The king's son went to his servants and said to the stout one, \"You shall be my guest to-day, and shall eat your fill.\" Hereupon the stout one puffed himself up and ate the three hundred oxen without leaving one single hair, and then he asked if he was to have nothing but his breakfast. Then he drank the wine straight from the casks without feeling any need of a glass, and drained them down to their dregs.",
"When the meal was over, the prince went to the old woman, and told her that the second task also was performed. She wondered at this and said, \"No one has ever done so much before, but one task still remains,\" and she thought to herself, \"You shall not escape me, and will not keep your head on your shoulders.\" \"This night,\" said she, \"I will bring my daughter to you in your chamber, and you shall put your arms round her, but when you are sitting there together, beware of falling asleep. When twelve o'clock is striking, I will come, and if she is then no longer in your arms, you are lost.\"",
"The prince thought, \"The task is easy, I will most certainly keep my eyes open.\" Nevertheless he called his servants, told them what the old woman had said, and remarked, \"Who knows what treachery lurks behind this? Foresight is a good thing - keep watch, and take care that the maiden does not go out of my room again.\" When night fell, the old woman came with her daughter, and gave her into the princes's arms, and then the tall one wound himself round the two in a circle, and the stout one placed himself by the door, so that no living creature could enter. There the two sat, and the maiden spoke never a word, but the moon shone through the window on her face, and the prince could behold her wondrous beauty.",
"He did nothing but gaze at her, and was filled with love and happiness, and his eyes never felt weary. This lasted until eleven o'clock, when the old woman cast such a spell over all of them that they fell asleep, and at the self-same moment the maiden was carried away.",
"Then they all slept soundly until a quarter to twelve, when the magic lost its power, and all awoke again. \"Oh, misery and misfortune,\" cried the prince, \"now I am lost.\" The faithful servants also began to lament, but the listener said, \"Be quiet, I want to listen.\" Then he listened for an instant and said, \"She is on a rock, three hundred leagues from hence, bewailing her fate. You alone, tall one, can help her, if you will stand up, you will be there in a couple of steps.\"",
"\"Yes,\" answered the tall one, \"but the one with the sharp eyes must go with me, that we may destroy the rock.\" Then the tall one took the one with bandaged eyes on his back, and in the twinkling of an eye they were on the enchanted rock. The tall one immediately took the bandage from the other's eyes, and he did but look round, and the rock shivered into a thousand pieces. Then the tall one took the maiden in his arms, carried her back in a second, then fetched his companion with the same rapidity, and before it struck twelve they were all sitting as they had sat before, quite merrily and happily. When twelve struck, the aged sorceress came stealing in with a malicious face, as much as to say, \"Now he is mine, for she believed that her daughter was on the rock three hundred leagues off.\"",
"But when she saw her in the prince's arms, she was alarmed, and said, \"Here is one who knows more than I do.\" She dared not make any opposition, and was forced to give him her daughter. But she whispered in her ear, \"It is a disgrace to you to have to obey common people, and that you are not allowed to choose a husband to your own liking.\"",
"On this the proud heart of the maiden was filled with anger, and she meditated revenge. Next morning she caused three hundred great bundles of wood to be got together, and said to the prince that though the three tasks were performed, she would still not be his wife until someone was ready to seat himself in the midst of the wood, and bear the fire. She thought that none of his servants would let themselves be burnt for him, and that out of love for her, he himself would place himself upon it, and then she would be free. But the servants said, \"Every one of us has done something except the frosty one, he must set to work, and they put him in the middle of the pile, and set fire to it.\"",
"Then the fire began to burn, and burnt for three days until all the wood was consumed, and when the flames had burnt out, the frosty one was standing amid the ashes, trembling like an aspen leaf, and saying, \"I never felt such a frost during the whole course of my life, if it had lasted much longer, I should have been benumbed.\"",
"As no other pretext was to be found, the beautiful maiden was now forced to take the unknown youth as a husband. But when they drove away to church, the old woman said, \"I cannot endure the disgrace,\" and sent her warriors after them with orders to cut down all who opposed them, and bring back her daughter. But the listener had sharpened his ears, and heard the secret discourse of the old woman. \"What shall we do?\" said he to the stout one. But he knew what to do, and spat out once or twice behind the carriage some of the sea-water which he had drunk, and a great lake arose in which the warriors were caught and drowned.",
"When the sorceress perceived that, she sent her mailed knights, but the listener heard the rattling of their armor, and undid the bandage from one eye of sharp-eyes, who looked for a while rather fixedly at the enemy's troops, on which they all sprang to pieces like glass. Then the youth and the maiden went on their way undisturbed, and when the two had been blessed in church, the six servants took leave, and said to their master, \"Your wishes are now satisfied, you need us no longer, we will go our way and seek our fortunes.\"",
"Half a league from the palace of the prince's father was a village near which a swineherd tended his herd, and when they came thither the prince said to his wife, \"Do you know who I really am? I am no prince, but a herder of swine, and the man who is there with that herd, is my father. We two shall have to set to work also, and help him.\" Then he alighted with her at the inn, and secretly told the innkeepers to take away her royal apparel during the night. So when she awoke in the morning, she had nothing to put on, and the innkeeper's wife gave her an old gown and a pair of worsted stockings, and at the same time seemed to consider it a great present, and said, \"If it were not for the sake of your husband I should have given you nothing at all.\"",
"Then the princess believed that he really was a swineherd, and tended the herd with him, and thought to herself, \"I have deserved this for my haughtiness and pride.\"",
"This lasted for a week, and then she could endure it no longer, for she had sores on her feet. And now came a couple of people who asked if she knew who her husband was. \"Yes,\" she answered, \"he is a swineherd, and has just gone out with cords and ropes to try to drive a little bargain.\" But they said, \"Just come with us, and we will take you to him,\" and they took her up to the palace, and when she entered the hall, there stood her husband in kingly raiment. But she did not recognize him until he took her in his arms, kissed her, and said, \"I suffered so much for you that you, too, had to suffer for me.\" And then the wedding was celebrated, and he who has related this, wishes that he, too, had been present at it."
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"Once upon a time, there lived a kind old queen who was a little bit magical. Her daughter was the most beautiful girl under the sun. The old woman, however, was very strict. She did not want anyone to marry her daughter. She said that if a boy wanted to marry her, he had to do a hard task first. If he failed, he would have to leave. Many boys wanted to marry the beautiful girl, but they could never finish the task. So, the old queen sent them away with a gentle smile.",
"The prince had heard about the beautiful girl. He asked his father, \"Please, let me go there. I want to ask for her hand.\" The king shook his head. \"No,\" he said. \"If you go, you will be in danger.\" The prince was very sad. He lay in bed and felt very sick. He stayed there for seven long years. No doctor could help him. When the king saw that nothing could be done, he felt very sad too. He told his son, \"Go there and try your luck. I do not know any other way to make you well.\" When the prince heard this, he got out of bed. He felt strong and happy again. He set off on his journey with a light heart.",
"As he rode across the heath, he saw something big lying on the ground. It looked like a huge pile of hay. When he got closer, he saw it was a big, round man. The man was lying down, and he looked as round as a mountain. When the fat man saw the traveler, he stood up and said, \"If you need help, take me with you.\" The prince asked, \"What can I do with such a clumsy man?\" \"Oh,\" said the big man, \"this is nothing. When I really puff myself up, I am three thousand times fatter.\" \"If that is true,\" said the prince, \"I can use you. Come with me.",
"The strong man walked behind the prince. Soon, they found a man lying on the grass with his ear to the ground. \"What are you doing there?\" asked the prince. \"I am listening,\" the man said. \"What are you listening to?\" \"I listen to everything going on in the world. I can even hear the grass growing.\" \"Tell me,\" said the prince, \"what you hear at the old queen's castle. She has a beautiful daughter.\" The man answered, \"I hear the loud *whoosh* of a sword cutting off a wooer's head.\" The prince said, \"I can use you. Come with me.",
"They kept walking until they saw a pair of feet and part of some legs. They could not see the rest of the body. After walking for a long time, they finally found the body and the head. \"Why,\" said the prince, \"what a tall fellow you are!\" \"Oh,\" replied the tall man, \"that is nothing yet. When I really stretch out my arms and legs, I am three thousand times as tall. I am even taller than the highest mountain on earth. I would love to help you, if you will take me.\" \"Come with me,\" said the prince, \"I can use your help.",
"They kept walking and saw a man sitting by the road. He had a bandage over his eyes. The prince asked him, \"Do you have weak eyes? Can you not look at the light?\" \"No,\" the man said. \"I cannot take the bandage off. Whatever I look at with my eyes breaks into pieces. My look is very strong. If you can use that power, I would be happy to serve you.\" \"Come with me,\" said the king's son. \"I can use you.",
"They kept walking and found a man lying in the bright sunshine. He was shaking and shivering all over, so his body would not stop moving. \"How can you be cold when the sun is so warm?\" asked the prince. \"Oh dear,\" the man replied, \"I am very different. The hotter it gets, the colder I feel. The cold feels like it is going right through my bones. And the colder it is, the hotter I get. I cannot stand the heat in the middle of ice, and I cannot stand the cold in the middle of fire.\" \"You are a strange fellow,\" said the prince, \"but if you will join my team, come with me.",
"They kept walking, and they saw a man standing there. He stretched his neck out very tall. He looked around and could see over all the mountains. \"What are you looking at so eagerly?\" asked the prince. The man said, \"I have such sharp eyes that I can see into every forest and field, and hill and valley, all over the world.\" The prince said, \"Come with me if you will, for I am still in want of such a helper.",
"Now the king's son and his six helpers arrived at the town where the old queen lived. He did not tell her who he was. He simply said, \"If you give me your beautiful daughter, I will do any task you ask.\" The sorceress was very happy to meet such a handsome young man. She said, \"I will give you three tasks. If you can finish them all, you may marry my daughter.\" \"What is the first task?\" \"You must bring me my ring. I dropped it into the red sea.",
"So the prince went home to his servants and said, \"The first task is not easy. We need to get a ring out of the red sea. Come, let's find a way to do it.\" Then the man with the sharp eyes said, \"I will look for it,\" and looked down into the water. He said, \"It is hanging there, on a pointed stone.\" The tall one carried them there and said, \"I would get it out fast if I could only see it.\" \"Oh, is that all?\" cried the stout one. He lay down and put his mouth to the water. The waves fell into his mouth just like a whirlpool. He drank up the whole sea until it was as dry as a meadow. The tall one bent down a little and brought out the ring with his hand.",
"The prince was so happy when he got the ring. He took it to the old queen. She was very surprised. She said, \"Yes, that is the right ring. You did the first task well. Now comes the second task. Do you see the green meadow in front of my house? Three hundred big oxen are eating there. You must eat them all, skin, hair, bones, and horns. You must also drink three hundred barrels of wine. If you leave even one hair or one drop of wine, your life will be in danger.\" \"Can I invite a friend to eat with me?\" asked the prince. \"A meal is not fun without someone to share it.\" The old woman laughed in a mean way. She said, \"You can invite one person for company, but no one else.",
"The king's son went to his servants and said to the big, strong one, \"You shall be my guest today, and you can eat as much as you like.\" The strong one puffed out his chest happily. He ate three hundred big oxen, and there was not even a single crumb left. Then he asked if he could have a little more for breakfast. He drank the wine right from the big barrels without using a cup, and he drank it all the way to the very last drop.",
"When the meal was over, the prince went to the kind old woman. He told her that he had finished the second task, too. She was very surprised and said, \"No one has ever done so much before, but there is still one last task.\" She thought to herself, \"You shall not escape me, and I will not let you keep your head on your shoulders.\"\n\n\"This night,\" she said, \"I will bring my daughter to you in your room. You must put your arms around her. But be very careful. Do not fall asleep. When the clock strikes twelve, I will come back. If she is not in your arms then, you are in big trouble.",
"The prince thought, \"This is easy. I will keep my eyes open.\" But he called his servants. He told them what the old woman had said. He said, \"We must be careful. Who knows what might happen? Please watch over the room. Make sure the maiden stays safe inside.\" When night fell, the old woman came with her daughter. She gave the girl to the prince. Then the tall servant stood in a circle around them. The strong servant stood by the door to keep it safe. They sat there quietly. The maiden did not speak a word. But the moon shone through the window on her face. The prince could see how beautiful she was.",
"He just looked at her with so much love and happiness. His eyes never felt tired at all. This went on until eleven o'clock. Then, the old woman cast a magic spell over everyone. They all fell fast asleep. At that very same moment, the young girl was carried away.",
"Then they all slept soundly until a quarter to twelve. Suddenly, the magic lost its power, and everyone woke up again. \"Oh, no!\" cried the prince. \"Now I am lost.\" The faithful servants also felt sad, but the listener said, \"Be quiet. I want to listen.\" He listened for a moment and said, \"She is on a big rock, far away. She is crying because she is sad. You alone, tall one, can help her. If you stand up, you will be there in just a few steps.",
"Yes,\" said the tall man. \"But the one with the sharp eyes must come with me. We need to break the rock.\"\n\nThe tall man put the one with bandaged eyes on his back. In a blink, they were on the magic rock. The tall man took the bandage off the other's eyes. He looked around, and the rock shook. It broke into a thousand little pieces.\n\nThe tall man picked up the girl in his arms. He carried her back in a flash. Then he went back for his friend. Before the clock struck twelve, they were all sitting together again, happy and safe.\n\nWhen the clock struck twelve, the old witch crept in. She looked at them with a mean smile. She thought her daughter was far, far away on the rock.",
"But when she saw her in the prince's arms, she was surprised. She whispered, \"Here is someone who knows more than I do.\" She did not dare to say no. She had to give him her daughter. Then, she leaned in close and whispered in her ear, \"It is a shame to have to listen to common people. You should get to choose your own husband.",
"The maiden felt very angry. She wanted to get even. The next morning, she gathered three hundred big bundles of wood. She told the prince that even though he did the tasks, she would not marry him yet. She said he had to sit in the middle of the wood and hold the fire. She thought his servants would not do it, and that he would do it out of love for her. Then she would be free. But the servants spoke up. \"We have all done our part,\" they said. \"Except for the one who is cold. He has to do it.\" So, they put him in the middle of the pile and lit the fire.",
"Then the fire started to burn. It burned for three whole days until all the wood was gone. When the flames finally went out, the little frost spirit was standing in the ashes. He was shaking like a leaf in the wind. He said, \"I have never felt so cold in my whole life. If it had lasted much longer, I would have frozen completely.",
"Since there was no other choice, the beautiful girl had to marry the young man she did not know. They got into a carriage to go to the church. The old woman felt very sad and said, \"I cannot bear the shame.\" She sent her strong warriors to stop them. She told them to hurt anyone who got in their way and bring her daughter back. But the young man had sharp ears. He heard the old woman whispering her plan. \"What should we do?\" he asked the strong man. The strong man knew exactly what to do. He spit out some of the sea water he had drunk. Suddenly, a big lake appeared. The warriors fell into the water and sank.",
"The sorceress sent her strong knights to stop them. But the young man heard the clanking of their metal armor. He took off the bandage from Sharp-Eyes. Sharp-Eyes looked at the knights for a moment. Then, the knights fell apart like glass toys. The young man and the maiden walked on safely. After they were blessed in the church, the six servants said goodbye. They told their master, \"Your wishes are done. You do not need us now. We will go out and find our own adventures.",
"Half a league from the prince's father’s home was a little village. A kind man tended his pigs there. When the prince and his wife arrived, he said softly, \"Do you know who I really am? I am not a prince. I am just a herder of pigs, and the man with the herd is my father. We must help him work.\" They stopped at a small inn for the night. The prince asked the owners to hide her beautiful clothes while she slept. When she woke up, she had nothing to wear. The innkeeper’s wife gave her an old dress and some soft socks. She smiled and said, \"I am giving you these because I care about your husband. If I didn't, I would have given you nothing at all.",
"Then the princess believed that he really was a swineherd, and she helped him tend the herd. She felt very sorry for her own pride. She thought to herself, \"I have deserved this for my haughtiness and pride.",
"For a whole week, she had to work very hard. Her feet hurt so much that she could not stand it any longer. Then, two kind people came to her. They asked if she knew who her husband was. \"Yes,\" she said, \"he is a swineherd, and he just went out to work.\" But the people said, \"Please come with us, and we will take you to him.\" They took her to a big palace. When she walked into the hall, she saw her husband standing there. He was wearing a beautiful king’s coat. She did not know him until he picked her up, gave her a warm hug, and kissed her. He said, \"I was so sad for you, so now you must be happy with me.\" They had a big wedding party. The person who told this story wishes he could have been there, too."
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"child_friendly_text": "Once upon a time, there lived a kind old queen who was a little bit magical. Her daughter was the most beautiful girl under the sun. The old woman, however, was very strict. She did not want anyone to marry her daughter. She said that if a boy wanted to marry her, he had to do a hard task first. If he failed, he would have to leave. Many boys wanted to marry the beautiful girl, but they could never finish the task. So, the old queen sent them away with a gentle smile.\n\nThe prince had heard about the beautiful girl. He asked his father, \"Please, let me go there. I want to ask for her hand.\" The king shook his head. \"No,\" he said. \"If you go, you will be in danger.\" The prince was very sad. He lay in bed and felt very sick. He stayed there for seven long years. No doctor could help him. When the king saw that nothing could be done, he felt very sad too. He told his son, \"Go there and try your luck. I do not know any other way to make you well.\" When the prince heard this, he got out of bed. He felt strong and happy again. He set off on his journey with a light heart.\n\nAs he rode across the heath, he saw something big lying on the ground. It looked like a huge pile of hay. When he got closer, he saw it was a big, round man. The man was lying down, and he looked as round as a mountain. When the fat man saw the traveler, he stood up and said, \"If you need help, take me with you.\" The prince asked, \"What can I do with such a clumsy man?\" \"Oh,\" said the big man, \"this is nothing. When I really puff myself up, I am three thousand times fatter.\" \"If that is true,\" said the prince, \"I can use you. Come with me.\n\nThe strong man walked behind the prince. Soon, they found a man lying on the grass with his ear to the ground. \"What are you doing there?\" asked the prince. \"I am listening,\" the man said. \"What are you listening to?\" \"I listen to everything going on in the world. I can even hear the grass growing.\" \"Tell me,\" said the prince, \"what you hear at the old queen's castle. She has a beautiful daughter.\" The man answered, \"I hear the loud *whoosh* of a sword cutting off a wooer's head.\" The prince said, \"I can use you. Come with me.\n\nThey kept walking until they saw a pair of feet and part of some legs. They could not see the rest of the body. After walking for a long time, they finally found the body and the head. \"Why,\" said the prince, \"what a tall fellow you are!\" \"Oh,\" replied the tall man, \"that is nothing yet. When I really stretch out my arms and legs, I am three thousand times as tall. I am even taller than the highest mountain on earth. I would love to help you, if you will take me.\" \"Come with me,\" said the prince, \"I can use your help.\n\nThey kept walking and saw a man sitting by the road. He had a bandage over his eyes. The prince asked him, \"Do you have weak eyes? Can you not look at the light?\" \"No,\" the man said. \"I cannot take the bandage off. Whatever I look at with my eyes breaks into pieces. My look is very strong. If you can use that power, I would be happy to serve you.\" \"Come with me,\" said the king's son. \"I can use you.\n\nThey kept walking and found a man lying in the bright sunshine. He was shaking and shivering all over, so his body would not stop moving. \"How can you be cold when the sun is so warm?\" asked the prince. \"Oh dear,\" the man replied, \"I am very different. The hotter it gets, the colder I feel. The cold feels like it is going right through my bones. And the colder it is, the hotter I get. I cannot stand the heat in the middle of ice, and I cannot stand the cold in the middle of fire.\" \"You are a strange fellow,\" said the prince, \"but if you will join my team, come with me.\n\nThey kept walking, and they saw a man standing there. He stretched his neck out very tall. He looked around and could see over all the mountains. \"What are you looking at so eagerly?\" asked the prince. The man said, \"I have such sharp eyes that I can see into every forest and field, and hill and valley, all over the world.\" The prince said, \"Come with me if you will, for I am still in want of such a helper.\n\nNow the king's son and his six helpers arrived at the town where the old queen lived. He did not tell her who he was. He simply said, \"If you give me your beautiful daughter, I will do any task you ask.\" The sorceress was very happy to meet such a handsome young man. She said, \"I will give you three tasks. If you can finish them all, you may marry my daughter.\" \"What is the first task?\" \"You must bring me my ring. I dropped it into the red sea.\n\nSo the prince went home to his servants and said, \"The first task is not easy. We need to get a ring out of the red sea. Come, let's find a way to do it.\" Then the man with the sharp eyes said, \"I will look for it,\" and looked down into the water. He said, \"It is hanging there, on a pointed stone.\" The tall one carried them there and said, \"I would get it out fast if I could only see it.\" \"Oh, is that all?\" cried the stout one. He lay down and put his mouth to the water. The waves fell into his mouth just like a whirlpool. He drank up the whole sea until it was as dry as a meadow. The tall one bent down a little and brought out the ring with his hand.\n\nThe prince was so happy when he got the ring. He took it to the old queen. She was very surprised. She said, \"Yes, that is the right ring. You did the first task well. Now comes the second task. Do you see the green meadow in front of my house? Three hundred big oxen are eating there. You must eat them all, skin, hair, bones, and horns. You must also drink three hundred barrels of wine. If you leave even one hair or one drop of wine, your life will be in danger.\" \"Can I invite a friend to eat with me?\" asked the prince. \"A meal is not fun without someone to share it.\" The old woman laughed in a mean way. She said, \"You can invite one person for company, but no one else.\n\nThe king's son went to his servants and said to the big, strong one, \"You shall be my guest today, and you can eat as much as you like.\" The strong one puffed out his chest happily. He ate three hundred big oxen, and there was not even a single crumb left. Then he asked if he could have a little more for breakfast. He drank the wine right from the big barrels without using a cup, and he drank it all the way to the very last drop.\n\nWhen the meal was over, the prince went to the kind old woman. He told her that he had finished the second task, too. She was very surprised and said, \"No one has ever done so much before, but there is still one last task.\" She thought to herself, \"You shall not escape me, and I will not let you keep your head on your shoulders.\"\n\n\"This night,\" she said, \"I will bring my daughter to you in your room. You must put your arms around her. But be very careful. Do not fall asleep. When the clock strikes twelve, I will come back. If she is not in your arms then, you are in big trouble.\n\nThe prince thought, \"This is easy. I will keep my eyes open.\" But he called his servants. He told them what the old woman had said. He said, \"We must be careful. Who knows what might happen? Please watch over the room. Make sure the maiden stays safe inside.\" When night fell, the old woman came with her daughter. She gave the girl to the prince. Then the tall servant stood in a circle around them. The strong servant stood by the door to keep it safe. They sat there quietly. The maiden did not speak a word. But the moon shone through the window on her face. The prince could see how beautiful she was.\n\nHe just looked at her with so much love and happiness. His eyes never felt tired at all. This went on until eleven o'clock. Then, the old woman cast a magic spell over everyone. They all fell fast asleep. At that very same moment, the young girl was carried away.\n\nThen they all slept soundly until a quarter to twelve. Suddenly, the magic lost its power, and everyone woke up again. \"Oh, no!\" cried the prince. \"Now I am lost.\" The faithful servants also felt sad, but the listener said, \"Be quiet. I want to listen.\" He listened for a moment and said, \"She is on a big rock, far away. She is crying because she is sad. You alone, tall one, can help her. If you stand up, you will be there in just a few steps.\n\nYes,\" said the tall man. \"But the one with the sharp eyes must come with me. We need to break the rock.\"\n\nThe tall man put the one with bandaged eyes on his back. In a blink, they were on the magic rock. The tall man took the bandage off the other's eyes. He looked around, and the rock shook. It broke into a thousand little pieces.\n\nThe tall man picked up the girl in his arms. He carried her back in a flash. Then he went back for his friend. Before the clock struck twelve, they were all sitting together again, happy and safe.\n\nWhen the clock struck twelve, the old witch crept in. She looked at them with a mean smile. She thought her daughter was far, far away on the rock.\n\nBut when she saw her in the prince's arms, she was surprised. She whispered, \"Here is someone who knows more than I do.\" She did not dare to say no. She had to give him her daughter. Then, she leaned in close and whispered in her ear, \"It is a shame to have to listen to common people. You should get to choose your own husband.\n\nThe maiden felt very angry. She wanted to get even. The next morning, she gathered three hundred big bundles of wood. She told the prince that even though he did the tasks, she would not marry him yet. She said he had to sit in the middle of the wood and hold the fire. She thought his servants would not do it, and that he would do it out of love for her. Then she would be free. But the servants spoke up. \"We have all done our part,\" they said. \"Except for the one who is cold. He has to do it.\" So, they put him in the middle of the pile and lit the fire.\n\nThen the fire started to burn. It burned for three whole days until all the wood was gone. When the flames finally went out, the little frost spirit was standing in the ashes. He was shaking like a leaf in the wind. He said, \"I have never felt so cold in my whole life. If it had lasted much longer, I would have frozen completely.\n\nSince there was no other choice, the beautiful girl had to marry the young man she did not know. They got into a carriage to go to the church. The old woman felt very sad and said, \"I cannot bear the shame.\" She sent her strong warriors to stop them. She told them to hurt anyone who got in their way and bring her daughter back. But the young man had sharp ears. He heard the old woman whispering her plan. \"What should we do?\" he asked the strong man. The strong man knew exactly what to do. He spit out some of the sea water he had drunk. Suddenly, a big lake appeared. The warriors fell into the water and sank.\n\nThe sorceress sent her strong knights to stop them. But the young man heard the clanking of their metal armor. He took off the bandage from Sharp-Eyes. Sharp-Eyes looked at the knights for a moment. Then, the knights fell apart like glass toys. The young man and the maiden walked on safely. After they were blessed in the church, the six servants said goodbye. They told their master, \"Your wishes are done. You do not need us now. We will go out and find our own adventures.\n\nHalf a league from the prince's father’s home was a little village. A kind man tended his pigs there. When the prince and his wife arrived, he said softly, \"Do you know who I really am? I am not a prince. I am just a herder of pigs, and the man with the herd is my father. We must help him work.\" They stopped at a small inn for the night. The prince asked the owners to hide her beautiful clothes while she slept. When she woke up, she had nothing to wear. The innkeeper’s wife gave her an old dress and some soft socks. She smiled and said, \"I am giving you these because I care about your husband. If I didn't, I would have given you nothing at all.\n\nThen the princess believed that he really was a swineherd, and she helped him tend the herd. She felt very sorry for her own pride. She thought to herself, \"I have deserved this for my haughtiness and pride.\n\nFor a whole week, she had to work very hard. Her feet hurt so much that she could not stand it any longer. Then, two kind people came to her. They asked if she knew who her husband was. \"Yes,\" she said, \"he is a swineherd, and he just went out to work.\" But the people said, \"Please come with us, and we will take you to him.\" They took her to a big palace. When she walked into the hall, she saw her husband standing there. He was wearing a beautiful king’s coat. She did not know him until he picked her up, gave her a warm hug, and kissed her. He said, \"I was so sad for you, so now you must be happy with me.\" They had a big wedding party. The person who told this story wishes he could have been there, too.",
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"Once upon a time, there lived a kind old queen who was a little bit magical. Her daughter was the most beautiful girl under the sun. The old woman, however, was very strict. She did not want anyone to marry her daughter. She said that if a boy wanted to marry her, he had to do a hard task first. If he failed, he would have to leave. Many boys wanted to marry the beautiful girl, but they could never finish the task. So, the old queen sent them away with a gentle smile.",
"The prince had heard about the beautiful girl. He asked his father, \"Please, let me go there. I want to ask for her hand.\" The king shook his head. \"No,\" he said. \"If you go, you will be in danger.\" The prince was very sad. He lay in bed and felt very sick. He stayed there for seven long years. No doctor could help him. When the king saw that nothing could be done, he felt very sad too. He told his son, \"Go there and try your luck. I do not know any other way to make you well.\" When the prince heard this, he got out of bed. He felt strong and happy again. He set off on his journey with a light heart.",
"As he rode across the heath, he saw something big lying on the ground. It looked like a huge pile of hay. When he got closer, he saw it was a big, round man. The man was lying down, and he looked as round as a mountain. When the fat man saw the traveler, he stood up and said, \"If you need help, take me with you.\" The prince asked, \"What can I do with such a clumsy man?\" \"Oh,\" said the big man, \"this is nothing. When I really puff myself up, I am three thousand times fatter.\" \"If that is true,\" said the prince, \"I can use you. Come with me.",
"The strong man walked behind the prince. Soon, they found a man lying on the grass with his ear to the ground. \"What are you doing there?\" asked the prince. \"I am listening,\" the man said. \"What are you listening to?\" \"I listen to everything going on in the world. I can even hear the grass growing.\" \"Tell me,\" said the prince, \"what you hear at the old queen's castle. She has a beautiful daughter.\" The man answered, \"I hear the loud *whoosh* of a sword cutting off a wooer's head.\" The prince said, \"I can use you. Come with me.",
"They kept walking until they saw a pair of feet and part of some legs. They could not see the rest of the body. After walking for a long time, they finally found the body and the head. \"Why,\" said the prince, \"what a tall fellow you are!\" \"Oh,\" replied the tall man, \"that is nothing yet. When I really stretch out my arms and legs, I am three thousand times as tall. I am even taller than the highest mountain on earth. I would love to help you, if you will take me.\" \"Come with me,\" said the prince, \"I can use your help.",
"They kept walking and saw a man sitting by the road. He had a bandage over his eyes. The prince asked him, \"Do you have weak eyes? Can you not look at the light?\" \"No,\" the man said. \"I cannot take the bandage off. Whatever I look at with my eyes breaks into pieces. My look is very strong. If you can use that power, I would be happy to serve you.\" \"Come with me,\" said the king's son. \"I can use you.",
"They kept walking and found a man lying in the bright sunshine. He was shaking and shivering all over, so his body would not stop moving. \"How can you be cold when the sun is so warm?\" asked the prince. \"Oh dear,\" the man replied, \"I am very different. The hotter it gets, the colder I feel. The cold feels like it is going right through my bones. And the colder it is, the hotter I get. I cannot stand the heat in the middle of ice, and I cannot stand the cold in the middle of fire.\" \"You are a strange fellow,\" said the prince, \"but if you will join my team, come with me.",
"They kept walking, and they saw a man standing there. He stretched his neck out very tall. He looked around and could see over all the mountains. \"What are you looking at so eagerly?\" asked the prince. The man said, \"I have such sharp eyes that I can see into every forest and field, and hill and valley, all over the world.\" The prince said, \"Come with me if you will, for I am still in want of such a helper.",
"Now the king's son and his six helpers arrived at the town where the old queen lived. He did not tell her who he was. He simply said, \"If you give me your beautiful daughter, I will do any task you ask.\" The sorceress was very happy to meet such a handsome young man. She said, \"I will give you three tasks. If you can finish them all, you may marry my daughter.\" \"What is the first task?\" \"You must bring me my ring. I dropped it into the red sea.",
"So the prince went home to his servants and said, \"The first task is not easy. We need to get a ring out of the red sea. Come, let's find a way to do it.\" Then the man with the sharp eyes said, \"I will look for it,\" and looked down into the water. He said, \"It is hanging there, on a pointed stone.\" The tall one carried them there and said, \"I would get it out fast if I could only see it.\" \"Oh, is that all?\" cried the stout one. He lay down and put his mouth to the water. The waves fell into his mouth just like a whirlpool. He drank up the whole sea until it was as dry as a meadow. The tall one bent down a little and brought out the ring with his hand.",
"The prince was so happy when he got the ring. He took it to the old queen. She was very surprised. She said, \"Yes, that is the right ring. You did the first task well. Now comes the second task. Do you see the green meadow in front of my house? Three hundred big oxen are eating there. You must eat them all, skin, hair, bones, and horns. You must also drink three hundred barrels of wine. If you leave even one hair or one drop of wine, your life will be in danger.\" \"Can I invite a friend to eat with me?\" asked the prince. \"A meal is not fun without someone to share it.\" The old woman laughed in a mean way. She said, \"You can invite one person for company, but no one else.",
"The king's son went to his servants and said to the big, strong one, \"You shall be my guest today, and you can eat as much as you like.\" The strong one puffed out his chest happily. He ate three hundred big oxen, and there was not even a single crumb left. Then he asked if he could have a little more for breakfast. He drank the wine right from the big barrels without using a cup, and he drank it all the way to the very last drop.",
"When the meal was over, the prince went to the kind old woman. He told her that he had finished the second task, too. She was very surprised and said, \"No one has ever done so much before, but there is still one last task.\" She thought to herself, \"You shall not escape me, and I will not let you keep your head on your shoulders.\"\n\n\"This night,\" she said, \"I will bring my daughter to you in your room. You must put your arms around her. But be very careful. Do not fall asleep. When the clock strikes twelve, I will come back. If she is not in your arms then, you are in big trouble.",
"The prince thought, \"This is easy. I will keep my eyes open.\" But he called his servants. He told them what the old woman had said. He said, \"We must be careful. Who knows what might happen? Please watch over the room. Make sure the maiden stays safe inside.\" When night fell, the old woman came with her daughter. She gave the girl to the prince. Then the tall servant stood in a circle around them. The strong servant stood by the door to keep it safe. They sat there quietly. The maiden did not speak a word. But the moon shone through the window on her face. The prince could see how beautiful she was.",
"He just looked at her with so much love and happiness. His eyes never felt tired at all. This went on until eleven o'clock. Then, the old woman cast a magic spell over everyone. They all fell fast asleep. At that very same moment, the young girl was carried away.",
"Then they all slept soundly until a quarter to twelve. Suddenly, the magic lost its power, and everyone woke up again. \"Oh, no!\" cried the prince. \"Now I am lost.\" The faithful servants also felt sad, but the listener said, \"Be quiet. I want to listen.\" He listened for a moment and said, \"She is on a big rock, far away. She is crying because she is sad. You alone, tall one, can help her. If you stand up, you will be there in just a few steps.",
"Yes,\" said the tall man. \"But the one with the sharp eyes must come with me. We need to break the rock.\"\n\nThe tall man put the one with bandaged eyes on his back. In a blink, they were on the magic rock. The tall man took the bandage off the other's eyes. He looked around, and the rock shook. It broke into a thousand little pieces.\n\nThe tall man picked up the girl in his arms. He carried her back in a flash. Then he went back for his friend. Before the clock struck twelve, they were all sitting together again, happy and safe.\n\nWhen the clock struck twelve, the old witch crept in. She looked at them with a mean smile. She thought her daughter was far, far away on the rock.",
"But when she saw her in the prince's arms, she was surprised. She whispered, \"Here is someone who knows more than I do.\" She did not dare to say no. She had to give him her daughter. Then, she leaned in close and whispered in her ear, \"It is a shame to have to listen to common people. You should get to choose your own husband.",
"The maiden felt very angry. She wanted to get even. The next morning, she gathered three hundred big bundles of wood. She told the prince that even though he did the tasks, she would not marry him yet. She said he had to sit in the middle of the wood and hold the fire. She thought his servants would not do it, and that he would do it out of love for her. Then she would be free. But the servants spoke up. \"We have all done our part,\" they said. \"Except for the one who is cold. He has to do it.\" So, they put him in the middle of the pile and lit the fire.",
"Then the fire started to burn. It burned for three whole days until all the wood was gone. When the flames finally went out, the little frost spirit was standing in the ashes. He was shaking like a leaf in the wind. He said, \"I have never felt so cold in my whole life. If it had lasted much longer, I would have frozen completely.",
"Since there was no other choice, the beautiful girl had to marry the young man she did not know. They got into a carriage to go to the church. The old woman felt very sad and said, \"I cannot bear the shame.\" She sent her strong warriors to stop them. She told them to hurt anyone who got in their way and bring her daughter back. But the young man had sharp ears. He heard the old woman whispering her plan. \"What should we do?\" he asked the strong man. The strong man knew exactly what to do. He spit out some of the sea water he had drunk. Suddenly, a big lake appeared. The warriors fell into the water and sank.",
"The sorceress sent her strong knights to stop them. But the young man heard the clanking of their metal armor. He took off the bandage from Sharp-Eyes. Sharp-Eyes looked at the knights for a moment. Then, the knights fell apart like glass toys. The young man and the maiden walked on safely. After they were blessed in the church, the six servants said goodbye. They told their master, \"Your wishes are done. You do not need us now. We will go out and find our own adventures.",
"Half a league from the prince's father’s home was a little village. A kind man tended his pigs there. When the prince and his wife arrived, he said softly, \"Do you know who I really am? I am not a prince. I am just a herder of pigs, and the man with the herd is my father. We must help him work.\" They stopped at a small inn for the night. The prince asked the owners to hide her beautiful clothes while she slept. When she woke up, she had nothing to wear. The innkeeper’s wife gave her an old dress and some soft socks. She smiled and said, \"I am giving you these because I care about your husband. If I didn't, I would have given you nothing at all.",
"Then the princess believed that he really was a swineherd, and she helped him tend the herd. She felt very sorry for her own pride. She thought to herself, \"I have deserved this for my haughtiness and pride.",
"For a whole week, she had to work very hard. Her feet hurt so much that she could not stand it any longer. Then, two kind people came to her. They asked if she knew who her husband was. \"Yes,\" she said, \"he is a swineherd, and he just went out to work.\" But the people said, \"Please come with us, and we will take you to him.\" They took her to a big palace. When she walked into the hall, she saw her husband standing there. He was wearing a beautiful king’s coat. She did not know him until he picked her up, gave her a warm hug, and kissed her. He said, \"I was so sad for you, so now you must be happy with me.\" They had a big wedding party. The person who told this story wishes he could have been there, too."
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