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"Why, Gold-tree, your daughter." "Oh! well, it is long since she was living. It is a year since I ate her heart and liver." "Oh! indeed she is not dead. She is married to a great prince abroad." Silver-tree went home, and begged the king to put the long-ship in order, and said, "I am going to see my dear Gold-tree, for it is so long since I saw her."
At the end of the year, Silver-tree went to the glen, where there was the well, in which there was the trout. "Troutie, bonny little fellow," said she, "am not I the most beautiful queen in the world?" "Oh! indeed you are not." "Who then?" "Why, Gold-tree, your daughter." "Oh! well, she is not alive. It is a year since I put the poisoned stab into her finger."
Once upon a time there was a king who had a wife, whose name was Silver-tree, and a daughter, whose name was Gold-tree. On a certain day of the days, Gold-tree and Silver-tree went to a glen, where there was a well, and in it there was a trout. Said Silver-tree, "Troutie, bonny little fellow, am not I the most beautiful queen in the world?" "Oh! indeed you are not." "Who then?"
On a certain day of the days he forgot to take the key with him, and the second wife got into the room. What did she see there but the most beautiful woman that she ever saw. She began to turn and try to wake her, and she noticed the poisoned stab in her finger. She took the stab out, and Gold-tree rose alive, as beautiful as she was ever.
"Why, Gold-tree, your daughter." Silver-tree went home, blind with rage. She lay down on the bed, and vowed she would never be well until she could get the heart and the liver of Gold-tree, her daughter, to eat. At nightfall the king came home, and it was told him that Silver-tree, his wife, was very ill. He went where she was, and asked her what was wrong with her.
When the prince saw Gold-tree alive he made great rejoicings, and he began to kiss her, and kiss her, and kiss her. Said the second wife, "Since she is the first one you had it is better for you to stick to her, and I will go away." "Oh! indeed you shall not go away, but I shall have both of you."
The prince was out hunting on the hills. Gold-tree knew her father's ship coming. "Oh!" said she, "my mother is coming, and she will kill me." "Not at all," said the second wife; "we will go down to meet her." Silver-tree came ashore. "Come down, Gold-tree, love," said she, "for your own mother has come to you with a precious drink."
"Oh! only a thing which you may heal if you like." "Oh! indeed there is nothing at all which I could do for you that I would not do." "If I get the heart and the liver of Gold-tree, my daughter, to eat, I shall be well." Now it happened about this time that the son of a great king had come from abroad to ask Gold-tree for marrying. The king now agreed to this, and they went abroad.
When the prince came home, and found Gold-tree dead, he was in great sorrow, and when he saw how beautiful she was, he did not bury her at all, but he locked her in a room where nobody would get near her. In the course of time he married again, and the whole house was under the hand of this wife but one room, and he himself always kept the key of that room.
"She shall not kill you at all; we will lock you in a room where she cannot get near you." This is how it was done; and when Silver-tree came ashore, she began to cry out: "Come to meet your own mother, when she comes to see you," Gold-tree said that she could not, that she was locked in the room, and that she could not get out of it.
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