but when the king in the castle awoke, he saw the three giants lying there dead. so he went into the sleeping-room of his daughter, awoke her, and asked who could have killed the giants? then said she, "dear father, i know not, i have been asleep." but when she arose and would have put on her slippers, the right one was gone, and when she looked at her neck-kerchief it was cut, and the right corner was missing, and when she looked at her night-dress a piece was cut out of it. the king summoned his whole court together, soldiers and every one else who was there, and asked who had set his daughter at liberty, and killed the giants? now it happened that he had a captain, who was one-eyed and a hideous man, and he said that he had done it. then the old king said that as he had accomplished this, he should marry his daughter. but the maiden said, "rather than marry him, dear father, i will go away into the world as far as my legs can carry me." but the king said that if she would not marry him she should take off her royal garments and wear peasant’s clothing, and go forth, and that she should go to a potter, and begin a trade in earthen vessels. so she put off her royal apparel, and went to a potter and borrowed crockery enough for a stall, and she promised him also that if she had sold it by the evening, she would pay for it. then the king said she was to seat herself in a corner with it and sell it, and he arranged with some peasants to drive over it with their carts, so that everything should be broken into a thousand pieces. when therefore the king’s daughter had placed her stall in the street, by came the carts, and broke all she had into tiny fragments.