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Updated: June 26, 2025
'I will give thee a ship which can sail over fresh water and salt water, over high hills and deep dales, answered the old woman. 'Let me have it then, said Minnikin. So the old woman gave him a little bit of a ship which was no bigger than he could put in his pocket, and then she got her eye back, and she went her way and Minnikin his.
'Ah, now we have got there, said Minnikin, 'but how we are to get back again is a very different thing. Then he took the cable and tied one end of it round his body.
Then all that Minnikin had asked for was brought; and first he ordered them to lay the cable in the ship, but there was no one who was able to lift it, and there was only room for one or two men at a time in the little bit of a ship.
'It is better that one should die than two, said he. In the meantime Minnikin begged the kitchen-maid very prettily to give him leave to go down to the strand for a short time. 'Oh, what could you do down at the strand? said the kitchen-maid. 'You have nothing to do there. 'Oh yes, my dear, just let me go, said Minnikin. 'I should so like to go and amuse myself with the other children.
There he saw a large hill with a door in it, and in he went. When he had got inside he found the other Princess sitting sewing, but when she saw Minnikin she clapped her hands. 'Ah, heaven be praised! she cried, 'I have not seen a Christian man since I came here. 'I have come for you, said Minnikin. 'Alas! you will not be able to get me, said the King's daughter.
But while they were running down from the King's palace, Minnikin had got out of the ship and had put it in his pocket again; for the moment he got out of it, it once more became as small as it had been when he got it from the old woman, and those who came from the King's palace could see nothing but a ragged little boy who was standing down by the sea-shore.
Minnikin did this, and almost before he had crept into the cupboard and hidden himself, came the Troll. 'Huf! What a smell of Christian man's blood! said the Troll. 'Yes, a bird flew over the roof with a Christian man's bone in his bill, and let it fall down our chimney, answered the Princess. 'I made haste enough to get it away again, but it must be that which smells so, notwithstanding.
When he came back to the King's palace the kitchen-maid clapped her hands and wondered where he could have got all that gold and silver; but Minnikin answered that he had been home for a short time, and that it was only the hoops which had fallen off some pails, and that he had brought them away for the kitchen-maid.
'I told you that you were not to call me unless you were in the utmost need, he said to Minnikin, 'and there is not even so much as a midge here who can do you any harm! and with that he gave Minnikin such a blow that he rolled over on the grass. 'Shame on you to strike me! said Minnikin.
'I will teach you, yelled the Troll, and struck at him with his iron club so that the earth flew up fifteen yards high into the air. 'Fie! said Minnikin. 'That was not much of a blow. Now I will let you see one of my blows. So saying he grasped his sword, and cut at the Troll in such a way that all his fifteen heads danced away over the sands.
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