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This was granted her, and she went to her mother's grave. There she lamented her hard fate in being given over to the lindorm, and earnestly prayed her mother for counsel. How long she lay there by the grave and wept one cannot tell, but sure it is that she fell asleep and slept until the sun rose. Then she rose up from the grave, quite happy at heart, and began to search about in the fields.
When she now heard that there was in the king's palace a lindorm which tore in pieces all the women that were married to him, and demanded a beautiful maiden for his bride, she went to the king, and said that her stepdaughter wished to wed the lindorm, so that the country's only prince might travel and seek a bride.
To this she was well content to answer 'Yes. Each time that the lindorm had held his wedding one of the king's retainers was sent next morning to open the door of the bridal chamber and see whether the bride was alive.
"There is the tradition of the Basilisk, as we call it, and that of the Lindorm. The legend of the Basilisk is, of course, of classic origin. It is that when a cock becomes very old, it lays an egg, and the heat of a dungheap hatches it, and a Basilisk is produced. It is so hideous a monster, that whoever looks on it can no longer live, but melts away.
The poisonous nature of the blood that flowed from the Lindorm, however, caused the glazier's death." "That is certainly a striking legend," said Hardy. "There is also a legend of a Lindorm that encircled a church and devoured the people as they came out, as it appeared only after their being in it. It had its head at one entrance and its tail at the other, and destroyed the people with both.
The queen gave orders that everything should be done as she desired; and then the maiden dressed herself in seven clean snow-white shirts, and held her wedding with the lindorm. When they were left alone in the bridal chamber the lindorm, in a threatening voice, ordered her to undress herself. 'Undress yourself first! said she. 'None of the others bade me do that, said he in surprise.
King Lindorm lived long and happily with his queen, and there are some who say that if they are not dead now they are still living to this day. The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther Contes populaires des Bassoutos. Recueillis et traduits par E. Jacottet. Paris: Leroux, Editeur. There was once a dove who built a nice soft nest as a home for her three little ones.
The prince did so, but got no further than the first cross-roads; there lay the lindorm again, who stopped him in the same way as before. The same thing happened on the third day when the prince tried to get past: the lindorm said, with a threatening voice, that before the prince could get a bride he himself must find a mate.
He caused even his own favorite, Klas Hoist, to be hung, and two friends of Sten Sture being betrayed to him, he had them quartered and exposed upon the wheel. Sir Lindorm Ribbing was seized and beheaded, together with his servants.
From that time forth the carpenter's wife drank free of expense every Sunday, for the others had to admit that she had fooled her husband the best. King Lindorm From the Swedish. There once lived a king and a queen who ruled over a very great kingdom.
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