she counted the reeds by the sea, and cut off the eleventh, struck the dragon therewith, whereupon the lion overcame it, and immediately both of them regained their human shapes. but when the princess, who had before been the dragon, was delivered from enchantment, she took the youth by the arm, seated herself on the griffin, and carried him off with her. there stood the poor maiden who had wandered so far and was again forsaken. she sat down and cried, but at last she took courage and said, "still i will go as far as the wind blows and as long as the cock crows, until i find him," and she went forth by long, long roads, until at last she came to the castle where both of them were living together; there she heard that soon a feast was to be held, in which they would celebrate their wedding, but she said, "god still helps me,"