The next trial, he went in the equipment of silver and rode two-thirds of the way, and the princess threw the second apple to him. He took the apple and rode off too quickly to be seen. The princess was much taken with him, and when he rode one-third of the way up and turned to go back, she threw an apple to him. The day of the trial, Boots's brothers refused to take him, but when the knights and princes had all failed, a knight appeared, whose equipment was brass. She sat on the mountain with three golden apples in her lap whoever took them would marry her and get half the kingdom. 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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