“But that is not part of our bargain.” The boy whined when the king was ready with another competition, instead of handing over half the kingdom to him.
“But this is also something that you have to do if you have to marry the princess and rule half of my kingdom.” The king told the boy firmly.
Unhappily, the boy realized that he could not change the mind of the king.
“What should I do?”
The king loftily looked around his palace. “You should make sure that the sun shines into my palace.”
The boy looked stunned. There were huge hills around the palace and that was the reason that the sun could not shine on the palace.
He was sure that he could not complete this condition, but he went to Dapplegrim and told the horse everything.
“I can do it.” The horse told the boy confidently as soon as he had heard the boy.
The boy was stunned as the horse continued and imposed the same condition as before. The horse wanted ten pounds of iron and twelve pounds of steel and two smiths to make horse shoes for it.
This was done by the king himself this time because he realized that he could not refuse this to the boy after imposing such a condition.
Dapplegrim wore strong horseshoes and this time the horse and the boy went to the top of every hill and stomped on top of every hill. For every stomp from the horse, the hill went down and soon, the horse and the boy flattened the entire hill.
The king was shocked when the sun shone through his palace.
But he still did not want the boy to marry his daughter.
Adapted from Norwegian Folktales
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