So it happened every time that the king and queen compelled any woman to be his bride . The report of this soon spread over all the country . Now it happened that there was a man who had married a second time , and his wife heard of the lindorm with great delight . Her husband had a daughter by his first wife who was more beautiful than all other maidens , and so gentle and good that she won the heart of all who knew her . His second wife , however , had also a grown-up daughter , who by herself would have been ugly and disagreeable enough , but beside her good and beautiful stepsister seemed still more ugly and wicked , so that all turned from her with loathing . The stepmother had long been annoyed that her husband 's daughter was so much more beautiful than her own , and in her heart she conceived a bitter hatred for her stepdaughter . When she now heard that there was in the king 's palace a lindorm which tore in pieces all the women that were married to him , and demanded a beautiful maiden for his bride , she went to the king , and said that her stepdaughter wished to wed the lindorm , so that the country 's only prince might travel and seek a bride . At this the king was greatly delighted , and gave orders that the young girl should be brought to the palace . When the messengers came to fetch her she was terribly frightened , for she knew that it was her wicked stepmother who in this way was aiming at her life . She begged that she might be allowed to spend another night in her father 's house . This was granted her , and she went to her mother 's grave . There she lamented her hard fate in being given over to the lindorm , and earnestly prayed her mother for counsel . How long she lay there by the grave and wept one can not tell , but sure it is that she fell asleep and slept until the sun rose . Then she rose up from the grave , quite happy at heart , and began to search about in the fields . There she found three nuts , which she carefully put away in her pocket . ` When I come into very great danger I must break one of these , ' she said to herself . Then she went home , and set out quite willingly with the king 's messengers . When these arrived at the palace with the beautiful young maiden everyone pitied her fate ; but she herself was of good courage , and asked the queen for another bridal chamber than the one the lindorm had had before . She got this , and then she requested them to put a pot full of strong lye on the fire and lay down three new scrubbing brushes . The queen gave orders that everything should be done as she desired ; and then the maiden dressed herself in seven clean snow-white shirts , and held her wedding with the lindorm .
When they were left alone in the bridal chamber the XXXXX , in a threatening voice , ordered her to undress herself .
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