there seemed nothing for it but to find a bride for the lindworm, if his younger brother, the prince, were to be married at all. so the king wrote to a distant country, and asked for a princess to marry his son (but, of course, he didn't say which son), and presently a princess arrived. but she wasn't allowed to see her bridegroom until he stood by her side in the great hall and was married to her, and then, of course, it was too late for her to say she wouldn't have him.