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Updated: June 26, 2025
'Oh, answered Minnikin, 'I have been home a while, and these hoops had fallen off some of our buckets, so I brought them away with me for you. So when the kitchen-maid heard that they were for her, she asked no more questions about the matter. She thanked Minnikin, and everything was right again at once.
At the first blow all the ragged garments which he had worn in the kitchen fell from off Minnikin, at the second blow the brass garments fell off, and at the third the silver raiment, and there he stood in the golden raiment, which was so bright and splendid that light flashed from it. Then the King's daughter said: 'Shame on you thus to smite the beloved of my heart.
When Minnikin had walked a long way alone, he met an old, old crook-backed hag, who had only one eye. Minnikin stole it. 'Oh! oh! cried the old hag, 'what has become of my eye? 'What will you give me to get your eye back? said Minnikin. 'I will give thee a sword which is such a sword that it can conquer a whole army, let it be ever so great, replied the woman.
'But if ever you fall into any need or trouble, said the elder, 'call me thrice, and I will come and help you; only you must not call me until you are in the utmost need. 'In that case we shall not see each other for some time, said Minnikin; so they bade farewell to each other, and Minnikin went east and King Pippin went west.
As for Minnikin, first he went out on the Troll's ship and took a great quantity of gold and silver hoops away with him, and then he trotted back to the King's palace. When the kitchen-maid caught sight of all this gold and silver she was quite amazed, and said: 'My dear friend Minnikin, where have you got all that from? for she was half afraid that he had not come by it honestly.
From the windows of the King's palace many persons had seen Minnikin come sailing thither, and had stood to watch him; and they were all so astounded that they ran down to see what manner of man this could be who came sailing in a ship through the air.
He led her down to the strand, but when the time drew near for the Troll to come, he climbed up into the tree again and hid himself. The Princess wept and entreated him to stay, but all to no purpose. He stuck to his old speech, 'It is better that one life should be lost than two. This evening also, Minnikin begged for leave to go down to the sea-shore.
Then Minnikin said: 'Now go over fresh water and salt water, over high hills and deep dales, and do not stop until thou comest to the King's palace. And in an instant the ship went away as swiftly as any bird in the air till it got just below the King's palace, and there it stood still.
Then the Princess was delivered, and she thanked Minnikin and blessed him for saving her. 'Sleep a while now on my lap, said she, and while he lay there she put a garment of brass upon him. 'But now, how shall we have it made known that it was you who saved me? said the King's daughter. 'That I will tell you, answered Minnikin.
'Oh, what can you want with that dirty, ragged boy, in here? said Ritter Red, but the Princess said that she insisted on having him as cup-bearer and would have no one else; and at last she got leave, and then everything was done as had been agreed on between the Princess and Minnikin.
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