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Updated: May 26, 2025
There was joy and gladness in the palace, as may be imagined, and the King did not know how to show enough honour and respect to Ritter Red. Minnikin, however, took home with him an armful of gold and silver hoops from the Troll's ship.
When he had walked on for a long time, he met for the third time an old, old crook-backed hag, who had only one eye. This eye also Minnikin stole, and when the woman screamed and lamented, and asked what had become of her eye, Minnikin said, 'What will you give me to get your eye back? 'I will give thee the art to brew a hundred lasts of malt in one brewing.
'Let me have it, then, said Minnikin. The old hag gave him the sword, so she got her eye back. Then Minnikin went onwards, and when he had wandered on for some time he again met an old, old crook-backed hag, who had only one eye. Minnikin stole it before she was aware. 'Oh! oh! what has become of my eye? cried the old hag. 'What will you give me to get your eye back? said Minnikin.
So the Troll struck at him with a great thick iron bar which he had in his fist, till the sods flew five yards up into the air. 'Fie! said Minnikin. 'That was not much of a blow. Now you shall see one of mine. So he grasped the sword which he had got from the old crook-backed woman, and slashed at the Troll so that all five heads went flying away over the sands.
But now Minnikin was not happy, for both the Princesses wanted to have him, and he wanted to have none other than the one whom he had first saved, and she was the younger. For this cause he was continually walking backwards and forwards, thinking how he could contrive to get her, and yet do nothing that was unkind to her sister.
'He who has such precious things in gold and silver and diamonds, said the King, 'must be the one who killed the Troll, for such things are not to be had anywhere else. So Ritter Red was thrown into the snake-pit, and Minnikin was to have the Princess, and half the kingdom. One day the King went out walking with Minnikin, and Minnikin asked him if he had never had any other children.
'Well, well, go then! said the kitchen-maid, 'but don't let me find you staying there over the time when the pan has to be set on the fire for supper, and the roast put on the spit; and mind you bring back a good big armful of wood for the kitchen. Minnikin promised this, and ran down to the sea-shore.
When the Princess saw that she was delivered she was so delighted that she did not know what she was doing, and skipped and danced. 'Come and sleep a bit with your head in my lap, she said to Minnikin, and as he slept she put a golden dress on him. But when Ritter Red saw that there was no longer any danger afoot, he lost no time in creeping down from the tree.
When those who were in the King's palace saw the ship, they lost no time in going to meet him with song and music, and thus they marched up towards Minnikin with great rejoicings; but the gladdest of all was the King, for now he had got his other daughter back again.
But he did not do much harm to this Troll either, for when the time came when the Troll might be expected, he said as he had said before: 'It is better that one should die than two, and then climbed up into the tree again. Minnikin once more begged the cook's leave to go down to the sea-shore for a short time. 'Oh, what can you do there? said the cook.
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