The step-mother was furious when she saw what had happened to her own daughter. But no amount of screaming or lamenting could bring her daughter’s appearance back to what it had been.
Meanwhile, the brother who had gone to work for the king, now had found good work in the King’s stables.
The brother had a portrait of his sister and the brother kept the portrait in his own room.
Now every night, the brother prayed for the well-being of his sister in front of his sister’s portrait.
The other stable-boys were curious about the brother’s behaviour and they peered through the key-hole of the brother’s room to see what he did.
The other stable-boys saw that the brother prayed every night before a portrait. But the other stable-boys could not see the face on the portrait clearly from the key-hole.
Finally, the stable boys told the king what the brother was doing every night.
The king was curious.
Finally one night, the king knocked on the brother’s door asking him to open the door.
However, the brother was so deep in his prayer that he heard none of it.
Finally, when the king knocked the door harder, the brother got up from his prayer and hurriedly opened the door of his room. In his hurry, the brother had not been able to hide the portrait of his sister before the king came inside the room.
The king came inside the brother’s room and the king saw the portrait and he was stunned by the beauty of the girl in the portrait.
Adapted from the Norwegian Folktales
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