im, and when the smell came in his nostrils he could not
refrain, but took a deep draught. When the hour drew near, he went into
the garden and stood on the tan-heap to wait for the king's daughter; as
time went on he grew more and more weary, and at last he laid himself
down and slept like a stone. At two o'clock came the raven with four
black horses, and the car and all was black; and she was sad, knowing
already that he was sleeping, and would not be able to set her free; and
when she came up to him, there he lay and slept. She shook him and
called to him, but she could not wake him. Then she laid a loaf by his
side and some meat, and a flask of wine, for now, however much he ate
and drank, it could not matter. And she took a ring of gold from her
finger, and put it on his finger, and her name was engraven on it. And
lastly she laid by him a letter, in which was set down what she had
given him, and that all was of no use, and further also it said,

"I see that here thou canst not save me, but if thy mind is to the
thing, come to the golden castle of Stromberg: I know well that if thou
willst thou canst." And when all this was done, she got again into her
car, and went to the golden castle of Stromberg.

When the man waked up and perceived that he had been to sleep, he was
sad at heart to think that she had been, and gone, and that he had not
set her free. Then, catching sight of what lay beside him, he read the
letter that told him all. And he rose up and set off at once to go to
the golden castle of Stromberg, though he knew not where it was. And
when he had wandered about in the world for a long time, he came to a
dark wood, and there spent a fortnight trying to find the way out, and
not being able. At the end of this time, it being towards evening, he
was so tired that he laid himself down under a clump of bushes and went
to sleep. The next day he went on again, and in the evening, when he was
going to lie down again to rest, he heard howlings and lamentations, so
that he could not sleep. And about the hour when lamps are lighted, he
looked up and saw a light glimmer in the forest; and he got up and
followed it, and he found that it came from a house that looked very
small indeed, because there stood a giant before it. And the man thought
to himself that if he were to try to enter and the giant were to see
him, it would go hard but he should lose his life. At last he made up
his mind, and walked in. And the giant