him three questions his life should be spared. So the first head
asked: "A thing without an end, what's that?" But the young man knew
not. Then the second head said: "The smaller, the more dangerous,
what's that?" But the young man knew it not. And then the third head
asked: "The dead carrying the living; riddle me that?" But the young
man had to give it up. The lad not being able to answer one of these
questions, the Red Ettin took a mallet and knocked him on the head,
and turned him into a pillar of stone.

On the morning after this happened, the younger brother took out the
knife to look at it, and he was grieved to find it all brown with
rust. He told his mother that the time was now come for him to go away
upon his travels also; so she requested him to take the can to the
well for water, that she might make a cake for him. And he went, and
as he was bringing home the water, a raven over his head cried to him
to look, and he would see that the water was running out. And he was a
young man of sense, and seeing the water running out, he took some
clay and patched up the holes, so that he brought home enough water to
bake a large cake. When his mother put it to him to take the half cake
with her blessing, he took it in preference to having the whole with
her malison; and yet the half was bigger than what the other lad had
got.

So he went away on his journey; and after he had travelled a far way,
he met with an old woman that asked him if be would give her a bit of
his johnny-cake. And he said: "I will gladly do that," and so he gave
her a piece of the johnny-cake; and for that she gave him a magical
wand, that she might yet be of service to him, if he took care to use
it rightly. Then the old woman, who was a fairy, told him a great deal
that would happen to him, and what he ought to do in all