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Updated: July 12, 2025
When he came she told him that she had no long time to live, and therefore wished to ask one thing of him, which was, that if he married another wife he should promise to take no other one than the Queen of Hetland the Good. The King gave the promise, and thereafter the Queen died. Time went past, and the King, growing tired of living alone, fitted out his ship and sailed out to sea.
The one that sat on the golden chair asked him who he was and where he was going; and he told her all the story how he was a king, and had lost his queen, and was now on his way to Hetland the Good, to ask the Queen of that country in marriage.
She answered that fortune had contrived this wonderfully, for pirates had plundered Hetland and killed the King, and she had fled from the land in terror, and had come hither after great trouble, and she was the very person he was looking for, and the others were her daughter and maid. The King immediately asked her hand; she gladly received his proposal and accepted him at once.
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