` Fire yourself ! ' said Minnikin . ` Can you fight ? ' screamed the Troll . ` If not , I can learn , ' said Minnikin . ' I will teach you , ' yelled the Troll , and struck at him with his iron club so that the earth flew up fifteen yards high into the air . ` Fie ! ' said Minnikin . ` That was not much of a blow . Now I will let you see one of my blows . ' So saying he grasped his sword , and cut at the Troll in such a way that all his fifteen heads danced away over the sands . Then the Princess was delivered , and she thanked Minnikin and blessed him for saving her . ` Sleep a while now on my lap , ' said she , and while he lay there she put a garment of brass upon him . ` But now , how shall we have it made known that it was you who saved me ? ' said the King 's daughter . ` That I will tell you , ' answered Minnikin . ` When Ritter Red has taken you home again , and given out that it was he who rescued you , he will , as you know , have you to wife , and half the kingdom . But when they ask you on your wedding-day whom you will have to be your cup-bearer , you must say , `` I will have the ragged boy who is in the kitchen , and carries wood and water for the kitchen-maid ; '' and when I am filling your cups for you , I will spill a drop upon his plate but none upon yours , and then he will be angry and strike me , and this will take place thrice . But the third time you must say , `` Shame on you thus to smite the beloved of mine heart . It is he who delivered me from the Troll , and he is the one whom I will have . '' '
Then Minnikin ran back to the King 's palace XXXXX he had done before , but first he went on board the Troll 's ship and took a great quantity of gold and silver and other precious things , and out of these he once more gave to the kitchen-maid a whole armful of gold and silver hoops .
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