` How clever you always are ! ' said the Troll . ` How could you let him go away ? You must have known that I was just wanting a man of that kind . ' ` Well , but I did n't let him go , after all , ' said the Princess ; ` but father is so quick-tempered , so I hid him in the cupboard , but if father has not found any one then the man is still here . ' ` Let him come in , ' said the Troll . When Minnikin came , the Troll asked if it were true that he could brew a hundred lasts of malt at one brewing . ` Yes , ' said Minnikin , ` it is . ' ` It is well then that I have lighted on thee , ' said the Troll . ` Fall to work this very minute , but Heaven help thee if thou dost not brew the ale strong . ' ` Oh , it shall taste well , ' said Minnikin , and at once set himself to work to brew . ` But I must have more trolls to help to carry what is wanted , ' said Minnikin ; ` these that I have are good for nothing . ' So he got more and so many that there was a swarm of them , and then the brewing went on . When the sweet-wort was ready they were all , as a matter of course , anxious to taste it , first the Troll himself and then the others ; but Minnikin had brewed the wort so strong that they all fell down dead like so many flies as soon as they had drunk any of it . At last there was no one left but one wretched old hag who was lying behind the stove . ` Oh , poor old creature ! ' said Minnikin , ` you shall have a taste of the wort too like the rest . ' So he went away and scooped up a little from the bottom of the brewing vat in a milk pan , and gave it to her , and then he was quit of the whole of them . While Minnikin was now standing there looking about him , he cast his eye on a large chest . This he took and filled it with gold and silver , and then he tied the cable round himself and the Princess and the chest , and tugged at the rope with all his might , whereupon his men drew them up safe and sound .
As soon as XXXXX had got safely on his ship again , he said : ` Now go over salt water and fresh water , over hill and dale , and do not stop until thou comest unto the King 's palace . '
Minnikin Princess Troll first hag left minute sweet-wort vat wort