before they were laid in their grave . The prince obeyed , had his horses harnessed to his gilded chariot , and set out to woo his bride . But when he came to the first cross-ways there lay a huge and terrible lindorm right across the road , so that his horses had to come to a standstill . ` Where are you driving to ? ' asked the lindorm with a hideous voice . ` That does not concern you , ' said the prince . ' I am the prince , and can drive where I please . ' ` Turn back , ' said the lindorm . ' I know your errand , but you shall get no bride until I have got a mate and slept by her side . ' The prince turned home again , and told the king and the queen what he had met at the cross-roads ; but they thought that he should try again on the following day , and see whether he could not get past it , so that he might seek a bride in another kingdom . The prince did so , but got no further than the first cross-roads ; there lay the lindorm again , who stopped him in the same way as before . The same thing happened on the third day when the prince tried to get past : the lindorm said , with a threatening voice , that before the prince could get a bride he himself must find a mate . When the king and queen heard this for the third time they could think of no better plan than to invite the lindorm to the palace , and they should find him a mate . They thought that a lindorm would be quite well satisfied with anyone that they might give him , and so they would get some slave-woman to marry the monster . The lindorm came to the palace and received a bride of this kind , but in the morning she lay torn in pieces . 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 .
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