lindorm

The lindorm came to the palace and received a bride of this kind, but in the morning she lay torn in pieces.

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Now it happened that there was a man who had married a second time, and his wife heard of the lindorm with great delight.

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The prince did so, but got no further than the first cross-roads; there lay the lindorm again, who stopped him in the same way as before.

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But when he came to the first cross-ways there lay a huge and terrible lindorm right across the road, so that his horses had to come to a standstill.

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They thought that a lindorm would be quite well satisfied with anyone that they might give him, and so they would get some slave-woman to marry the monster.

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The same thing happened on the third day when the prince tried to get past: the lindorm said, with a threatening voice, that before the prince could get a bride he himself must find a mate.

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The queen gave orders that everything should be done as she desired; and then the maiden dressed herself in seven clean snow-white shirts, and held her wedding with the lindorm.

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In due time it happened as the woman had said; but the first that the queen gave birth to was a hideous lindorm, or serpent.

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When these arrived at the palace with the beautiful young maiden everyone pitied her fate; but she herself was of good courage, and asked the queen for another bridal chamber than the one the lindorm had had before.

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When the king and queen heard this for the third time they could think of no better plan than to invite the lindorm to the palace, and they should find him a mate.

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