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Updated: May 7, 2025
"I wonder when I shall meet the Sea-Troll and what he's like," thought Princess Sidigunda. "I suppose I shall be able to recognize him somehow." As she thought this, she noticed that some object was rapidly floating towards her.
Princess Sidigunda looked surprised. "Will the children who took my shoe be asleep?" she enquired anxiously. "Not they!" said the brown Troll crossly, "I wish they would be! Children under twelve never sleep. It's like having a crowd of live eels always round me! I'd put them to sleep when they were a month old, and not let them wake till they came of age, if I had my way!"
Long stone tables filled the middle of the room; at which a crowd of small brown-coated men were seated, scribbling away with long pens, but in total silence. The great grey beards of some of the writers had touched the ground, and even twisted themselves round the legs of the benches on which the old men were sitting. Princess Sidigunda stood for a minute looking on, curiously.
A white cloud seemed to float over Sidigunda, and she felt herself lifted up with a soothing motion, until on opening her eyes she found she was once more in the region of the fresh air and sunshine. Looking round, she saw the ruffled surface of the sea, and the waves breaking upon the shore before the Castle.
Princess Sidigunda lived with her parents in a beautiful old castle by the sea.
Never, whatever happens, cry again; for there is nothing worries me so much, and I want to finish my sleep comfortably." With these words the old Troll collected his long grey beard which had strayed over the sand-hill; and folding it round him, he disappeared in the hole again. Princess Sidigunda did not give herself time to think.
With it you will be able to breathe and see, as well as if you were on dry land. From this flask" and he handed Sidigunda a curious little gold bottle "you must pour a few drops on to your remaining shoe, and whenever you do so it will change in a moment into a boat, a horse, or a fish, as you desire it."
Sidigunda took off her slipper, and poured out some drops from her magic bottle. Immediately it grew larger and larger; and she had just time to spring in, before it galloped away with a series of bounds that made it very difficult to cling on.
He will direct you." "That sounds simple enough," thought the Princess, "but I wish he would tell me a little more!" The brown Troll, however, refused to open his mouth again, and Princess Sidigunda was obliged to start off upon her wanderings, with no more guide than the few words he had chosen to speak to her.
The Princess's little friends ran off laughing; while she followed, her hair streaming, her bare feet twinkling in the sunlight. "How nice it is to be free, without those tiresome shoes!" cried the Princess. The children paddled in the water until they were tired, and then Sidigunda thought it was time to put on her slippers again.
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