So Ritter Red ran off at once for his handkerchief with the lungs and tongue , and Minnikin went and brought all the gold and silver and precious things which he had taken out of the Trolls ' ships ; and they each of them laid these tokens before the King . ` He who has such precious things in gold and silver and diamonds , ' said the King , ` must be the one who killed the Troll , for such things are not to be had anywhere else . ' So Ritter Red was thrown into the snake-pit , and Minnikin was to have the Princess , and half the kingdom . One day the King went out walking with Minnikin , and Minnikin asked him if he had never had any other children . ` Yes , ' said the King , ' I had another daughter , but the Troll carried her away because there was no one who could deliver her . You are going to have one daughter of mine , but if you can set free the other , who has been taken by the Troll , you shall willingly have her too , and the other half of the kingdom as well . ' ' I may as well make the attempt , ' said Minnikin , ` but I must have an iron rope which is five hundred ells long , and then I must have five hundred men with me , and provisions for five weeks , for I have a long voyage before me . ' So the King said he should have these things , but the King was afraid that he had no ship large enough to carry them all . ` But I have a ship of my own , ' said Minnikin , and he took the one which the old woman had given him out of his pocket . The King laughed at him and thought that it was only one of his jokes , but Minnikin begged him just to give him what he had asked for , and then he should see something . Then all that Minnikin had asked for was brought ; and first he ordered them to lay the cable in the ship , but there was no one who was able to lift it , and there was only room for one or two men at a time in the little bit of a ship . Then Minnikin himself took hold of the cable , and laid one or two links of it into the ship , and as he threw the links into it the ship grew bigger and bigger , and at last it was so large that the cable , and the five hundred men , and provisions , and Minnikin himself , had room enough . ` Now go over fresh water and salt water , over hill and dale , and do not stop until thou comest to where the King 's daughter is , ' said Minnikin to the ship , and off it went in a moment over land and water till the wind whistled and moaned all round about it . When they had sailed thus a long , long way , the ship stopped short in the middle of the sea . ` Ah , now we have got there , ' said Minnikin , ` but how we are to get back again is a very different thing . ' Then he took the cable and tied one end of it round his body . ` Now I must go to the bottom , ' he said , ` but when I give a good jerk to the cable and want to come up again , you must all pull like one man , or there will be an end of all life both for you and for me . ' So saying he sprang into the water , and yellow bubbles rose up all around him . He sank lower and lower , and at last he came to the bottom . There he saw a large hill with a door in it , and in he went .
When he had got inside he found the other Princess sitting sewing , but when she saw XXXXX she clapped her hands .
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