When they came near to this castle , which looked as if it was of pure glass , the youth ran on in front as the king 's fool . Heran sometimes facing forwards , sometimes backwards , stood sometimes on his head , and sometimes on his feet , and he dashed in pieces so many of the troll 's big glass windows and doors that it was something awful to see , and overturned everything he could , and made a fearful disturbance . The troll came rushing out , and was so angry and furious , and abused the king with all his might for bringing such a wretched fool with him , as he was sure that he could not pay the least bit of all the damage that had been done when he could not even pay off his old debt . The fool , however , spoke up , and said that he could do so quite easily , and the king then came forward with the six bushels of money which the youth had lent him . They were measured and found to be correct . This the troll had not reckoned on , but he could make no objection against it . The old debt was honestly paid , and the king got his bond back again . But there still remained all the damage that had been done that day , and the king had nothing with which to pay for this . The troll , therefore , sentenced the king , either to answer three questions that he would put to him , or have his head taken off , as was agreed on in the old bond . There was nothing else to be done than to try to answer the troll 's riddles . The fool then stationed himself just by the king 's side while the troll came forward with his questions . He first asked , ` Where is my daughter ? ' The fool spoke up and said , ` She is at the bottom of the sea . ' ` How do you know that ? ' said the troll . ` The little fish saw it , ' said the fool . ` Would you know her ? ' said the troll . ` Yes , bring her forward , ' said the fool . The troll made a whole crowd of women go past them , one after the other , but all these were nothing but shadows and deceptions .
Amongst the very last was the troll 's real daughter , who pinched the fool as she went past him XXXXX make him aware of her presence .
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