"ah! but it is you after all, halvor?" she cried; and then there was such joy for the old couple, there was no end to it; and he was forced to tell how he had fared, and the old dame was so fond and proud of him, nothing would do but he must go up at once to the farmer's, and show himself to the lassies, who had always looked down on him. and off she went first, and halvor followed after. so, when she got up there, she told them all how halvor had come home again, and now they should only just see how grand he was, for, said she, "he looks like nothing but a king's son."