The Story of the Three Dogs - Part Eleven

 

Now that the giant was free of the three dogs, he looked smugly at the Boy. He pulled out his sword that hung from the wall. “I will now avenge my brothers.”

The Boy was shocked and realized that he had no one to fight the Giant, because his dogs were trapped. But the Boy thought fast.

“Before I fight you, I want to say a prayer and play a hymn in my pipe.”

The Giant did not see anything wrong with the request and agreed to it.

After saying his prayer the boy then played on his pipe.

When the pipe’s music sounded over the hill, the Giant’s magic spell lost its power and the three dogs became free.

The three dogs came rushing to the Boy’s aid, like a gust of wind.

“Hold On,” The Boy cried. “Hold this Giant!” The Boy turned to his two other dogs. “Tear and List tear this Giant into a thousand pieces.”

The Giant lay dead.

Then the boy took all the precious things from the mountains and took the Giant’s horses, the golden chariot and placed the princesses in the chariot and drove away from the mountain.

The three princesses were happy at being free for saving them.

But the Boy fell in love with the youngest princess and the third princess also loved the Boy back.

Then they drove towards the kingdom of the three Princesses.

However, on the same road were two wanderers and these wanderers looked terrible. Their clothes were torn and their feet were sore from the continuous walking.

These wanderers were the two princes who had travelled in search of the three princesses.

Adapted from Swedish Folk Stories