The king of that country had a beautiful daughter and had decreed that whoever would marry her must climb a glass mountain to win her. The next year, the equipment for the horse was in silver, and the year after that, in gold. When he returned home, he denied that anything had happened. He threw the steel from his tinderbox over it, which tamed it. Next to it was a saddle, bridle, and full suit of armor, all in brass. At the end, he heard a horse and went outside to catch it eating the grass. The third, Boots also called Cinderlad, was despised by his brothers, who jeered at him for always sitting in the ashes, but he went the third year and stayed through three earthquakes. He set his sons, one by one, to guard it, but the older two were frightened off by an earthquake. Illustration by Kay Nielsen for East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North (1914).Ī farmer's haymeadow was eaten every year on the Eve of the Feast of St. The princess holds three apples, to deliver to her liberator.
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