He went up into the guard-room, and sent a message to the king that a
guest had come who prayed that he might add to the wedding mirth by
exhibiting his dogs. The king was pleased, and ordered that the stranger
should be well received. When the lad came into the hall, the wedding
guests much admired his smartness and his manly form, and they all
thought they had never before seen so brave a young man. When the three
princesses saw him they knew him at once, rose from the table, and ran
into his arms. Then the princes thought they had better not stay there,
for the princesses told how the lad had saved them, and how all had
befallen. As a proof of the truth of what they said, they showed their
rings in the lad's hair.

When the king knew how the two foreign princes had acted so
treacherously and basely he was much enraged, and ordered that they
should be driven off his demesnes with disgrace.

The brave youth was welcomed with great honour, as, indeed, he deserved,
and he was, the same day, married to the youngest princess. When the
king died, the youth was chosen ruler over the land, and made a brave
king. There he yet lives with his beautiful queen, and there he governs
prosperously to this day.

I know no more about him.




THE LEGEND OF THORGUNNA.