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Updated: June 22, 2025
But the giant said: "Well, as the Master-Maid has helped you so far she can help you always. You shall marry her today and sleep in my own four-poster." The Prince was well content with that arrangement and went and sought the Master-Maid and told her what the giant had said. The Master-Maid wept and said: "You know not what he means.
When night came, the Master-Maid and her Prince went up into the room with the four-poster, but as soon as it was dark crept down the stairs and went out to the stable and chose two of the swiftest horses there and rode away as quickly as they could. The giant waited for some time after they had gone upstairs and then called out: "Are you asleep?"
At first the Princess would not think of such a thing; but after thinking the matter over she thought of a plan, and said: "Well, you shall have your wish," and took away with her the silken dress. But at night, when the Master-Maid came to the palace and claimed her promise, the Princess put a sleep-giving drug in Edgar's cup.
Soon afterwards the King and the Queen arranged for the marriage of Prince Edgar with a great Princess from a neighbouring country. And she was brought home with great pomp and ceremony to the King's palace. And one day after her marriage, when she was out, she passed by the hut in which the Master-Maid was dwelling.
They had gone on a good way in front; but after a time they heard the trampling of the hoofs of the great horse Dapplegrim, and the Master-Maid said to Prince Edgar: "That is the giant; he will soon overtake us if we do not do something." And she jumped off her horse and bade Prince Edgar do the same.
The Princess knew what had happened the night before, so she agreed to let the Master-Maid pass still another night with her bridegroom. But all happened as before; and when the Master-Maid came into the room she bent over Edgar, lying upon the bed, and called out: "I gave my bones for thee, I shared the apples for thee, And yet thou'lt not speak to me";
Wainamoinen and Ilmarinen now go together to Pohjola, but the fickle maiden of the land prefers the young forger of the sampo to his elder and imperturbable companion. Like a northern Medea, or like the Master-maid in Dr. Dasent's 'Tales from the Norse, or like the hero of the Algonquin tale and the Samoan ballad, she aids her alien lover to accomplish the tasks assigned to him.
But the giant, as soon as he came to the forest, had to take his axe from his side and hew his way through the thick trees, so that Edgar and the Master-Maid got far ahead. But soon they heard once more the trampling of Dapplegrim close behind them; and the Master-Maid took the glass axe that the giant had given Edgar on the second day, and threw it behind her with magic spells.
When the giant came home the first thing he did was to go to the stable; and when he saw it had all been cleared out he said to the Prince: "Ah, you've been talking to my Master-Maid. Well, to-morrow you'll have to cut down that clump of trees." "Very well, Master," said Prince Edgar, and thought that would not be difficult.
The Master-Maid shook her head sadly and said: "Do as you will, but beware lest any one kiss you before you see me again." "I want no kisses from any one but you," said Prince Edgar, and leaving her in a hut by the roadside he went on to greet the King and Queen. When he got to the palace gate everybody was astonished to see him, as they had all thought he had been destroyed by the giant.
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