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 as 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 . No sooner did Ritter Red see that all danger was over than he crept down from the tree , and threatened the King 's daughter till he made her promise to say that he had rescued her . Then he conducted her back to the King 's palace , and if honour enough had not been done him before it was certainly done now , for the King had no other thought than how to make much of the man who had saved his daughter from the three Trolls ; and it was settled then that Ritter Red should marry her , and receive half the kingdom . On the wedding-day , however , the Princess begged that she might have the little boy who was in the kitchen , and carried wood and water for the kitchen-maid , to fill the wine-cups at the wedding feast . ` Oh , what can you want with that dirty , ragged boy , in here ? ' said Ritter Red , but the Princess said that she insisted on having him as cup-bearer and would have no one else ; and at last she got leave , and then everything was done as had been agreed on between the Princess and Minnikin . He spilt a drop on Ritter Red 's plate but none upon hers , and each time that he did it Ritter Red fell into a rage and struck him . At the first blow all the ragged garments which he had worn in the kitchen fell from off Minnikin , at the second blow the brass garments fell off , and at the third the silver raiment , and there he stood in the golden raiment , which was so bright and splendid that light flashed from it . Then the King 's daughter said : ` Shame on you thus to smite the beloved of my heart . It is he who delivered me from the Troll , and he is the one whom I will have . ' Ritter Red swore that he was the man who had saved her , but the King said : ` He who delivered my daughter must have some token in proof of it . ' 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 XXXXX me , and provisions for five weeks , for I have a long voyage before me . '
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