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Updated: June 6, 2025
When the kitchen-maid set her eyes on all that gold and silver, she was quite scared, and asked him: 'But dear, good, Shortshanks, wherever did you get all this from? for she was rather afraid he hadn't come rightly by it.
Ritter Red cursed and swore it was he who had set her free; but the king put in his word, and said: 'The man who saved my daughter must have some token to show for it. Yes! Ritter Red had something to show, and he ran off at once after his handkerchief with the lungs and tongues in it, and Shortshanks fetched all the gold and silver, and precious things, he had taken out of the Ogres' ships.
'Sleep now a while on my lap', she said; and he laid his head on her lap, and while he slept, she threw over him a golden robe. 'But how shall we let it be known that it is you that have saved me? she asked, when he awoke. 'Oh, I'll soon tell you', answered Shortshanks.
'Didn't I say! he said to Shortshanks, 'didn't I say you were not to call me except in your utmost need? and here there is not so much as a gnat to do you any harm', and with that he gave him such a box on the ear that Shortshanks tumbled head over heels on the grass. 'Now shame on you to 'hit so hard! said Shortshanks.
The Princess begged and prayed, but it was no good, for Ritter Red said again: ''Tis better that one should lose life than two. That evening, too, Shortshanks begged for leave to go down to the strand. 'Oh! said the kitchen-maid, 'what should take you down there?
The Princess begged and prayed him not to leave her, but Ritter Red turned a deaf ear to her, and all he said was: 'Tis better for one to lose life than for two. That was what Ritter Red said. Meantime Shortshanks went to the kitchen-maid, and asked her so prettily if he mightn't go down to the strand for a bit? 'And what should take you down to the strand? asked the kitchen- maid.
But while they were running down, Shortshanks had stepped out of his ship and put it into his pocket again; for as soon as he stepped out of it, it became as small as it was when he got it from the old woman. So those who had run down from the palace saw no one but a ragged little boy standing down there by the strand.
'You know you've no business there. 'Oh, dear friend', said Shortshanks, 'do let me go? I should so like to run down there and play a while with the other children; that I should.
Shortshanks gets the ogre and all his kith and kin to help the brew, and brews the wort so strong, that, on tasting it, they all fall down dead, except one, an old woman, "who lay bed-ridden in the chimney-corner," and to her our hero carries his wort and kills her too. He then carries off the treasure of the ogres, and gives this princess and the other half of the kingdom to his brother Sturdy.
But now Shortshanks was rather down-hearted, for you must know that both the princesses wanted to have him, and he would have no other than the one he had first saved, and she was the youngest. So he walked up and down, and thought and thought what he should do to get her, and yet do something to please her sister.
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