At last they set forth on their way again , but the Bull was still weak , and at first could not go quickly . The King 's daughter wished to spare him , and said that she was so young and light of foot that she would willingly walk , but he would not give her leave to do that , and she was forced to seat herself on his back again . So they travelled for a long time , and through many lands , and the King 's daughter did not at all know where he was taking her , but after a long , long time they came to a gold wood . It was so golden that the gold dripped off it , and the trees , and the branches , and the flowers , and the leaves were all of pure gold . Here all happened just as it had happened in the copper wood and silver wood . The Bull told the King 's daughter that on no account was she to touch it , for there was a Troll with nine heads who was the owner , and that he was much larger and stronger than both the others put together , and that he did not believe that he could overcome him . So she said that she would take great care not to touch anything , and he should see that she did . But when they got into the wood it was still thicker than the silver wood , and the farther they got into it the worse it grew . The wood became thicker and thicker , and closer and closer , and at last she thought there was no way whatsoever by which they could get forward ; she was so terrified lest she should break anything off , that she sat and twisted , and turned herself on this side and on that , to get out of the way of the branches , and pushed them away from her with her hands , but every moment they struck against her eyes , so that she could not see what she was clutching at , and before she knew what she was doing she had a golden apple in her hands . She was now in such terror that she began to cry , and wanted to throw it away , but the Bull said that she was to keep it , and take the greatest care of it , and comforted her as well as he could , but he believed that it would be a hard struggle , and he doubted whether it would go well with him . Just then the Troll with nine heads came , and he was so frightful that the King 's daughter scarcely dared to look at him ` Who is this who is breaking my wood ? ' he screamed ` It is as much mine as yours ! ' said the Bull . ` We shall have a tussle for that ! ' screamed the Troll . ` That may be , ' said the Bull ; so they rushed at each other , and fought , and it was such a dreadful sight that the King 's daughter very nearly swooned . The Bull gored the Troll 's eyes out and ran his horns right through him , but the Troll fought as well as he did , and when the Bull had gored one head to death the other heads breathed life into it again , so it was a whole week before the Bull was able to kill him . But then he himself was so worn out and weak that he could not move at all . His body was all one wound , and he could not even so much as tell the King 's daughter to take the horn of ointment out of the Troll 's belt and rub him with it . She did this without being told ; so he came to himself again , but he had to lie there for three weeks and rest before he was in a state to move .
Then they journeyed onwards by degrees , XXXXX the Bull said that they had still a little farther to go , and in this way they crossed many high hills and thick woods .
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