On the night after this happened, a beautiful girl came into the kitchen of the king’s palace.
She asked the kitchen maid who slept there to give her a brush.
The kitchen maid gave her a brush and gold dropped from the women's hair.
There was a little dog with the girl and the girl turned to the little dog. “Go out, Little Snow and see if it will soon become day.”
After asking the dog to do this three times it was dawn.
It was obvious that the girl had to leave at dawn, but before she left she spoke about the ugly Bushy Bride who slept next to the king, when she had been forced to make her bed on stone and sand and her brother slept with a cold snake.
The girl then turned to the maid. “I will come two more times but never again.”
The next morning the kitchen maid went and told the king what had happened.
The Bushy Bride crooned and sang when the king went to the kitchen. It was because of this that though the king tried his best to stay awake, he fell asleep the next night when the beautiful young girl came to the kitchen.
The young girl sang the same song about the Bushy Bride after the gold dropped from her brush and this time she turned to the kitchen maid and said that she can come only once more and then never again.
Adapted from Norwegian Folktales
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