White Bear by day and a man by night. It is a wicked witch who has
bewitched me; and now I must set off from you to her. She lives in a
castle which stands East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, and there are
many trolls and witches there and one of those is the wife I must now
have."

She wept, but there was no help for it; go he must.

Then she asked if she mightn't go with him?

No, she mightn't.

"Tell me the way then," she said, "and I'll search you out; that,
surely, I may get leave to do."

"Yes, you may do that," he said, "but there is no way to that place. It
lies East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon and thither you can never find
your way." And at that very moment both Prince and castle were gone, and
she lay on a little green patch in the midst of the gloomy thick wood,
and by her side lay the same bundle of rags she had brought with her
from home.

Then she wept and wept till she was tired, and all the while she thought
of the lovely Prince and how she should find him.

So at last she set out on her way and walked many, many days and
whomever she met she asked: "Can you tell me the way to the castle that
lies East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon?" But no one could tell her.

And on she went a weary time. Both hungry and tired was she when she got