One night , not long after , a loud noise and rumbling was heard under the castle . Hadvor at once guessed what it was , and told her maids to be ready to help her . The noise and thundering grew louder and louder , until the floor began to open , whereupon Hadvor made them take the caldron of pitch and pour plenty of it into the opening . With that the noises grew fainter and fainter , till at last they ceased altogether . Next morning the Queen rose early , and went out to the Palace gate , and there she found her brother the Giant lying dead . She went up to him and said , ' I pronounce this spell , that you become a beautiful prince , and that Hadvor shall be unable to say anything against the charges that I shall bring against her . ' The body of the dead Giant now became that of a beautiful prince , and the Queen went in again . ' I do n't think , ' said she to the King , ` that your daughter is as good as she is said to be . My brother came and asked her hand , and she has had him put to death . I have just found his dead body lying at the Palace gate . ' The King went along with the Queen to see the body , and thought it all very strange ; so beautiful a youth , he said , would have been a worthy match for Hadvor , and he would readily have agreed to their marriage . The Queen asked leave to decide what Hadvor 's punishment should be , which the King was very willing to allow , so as to escape from punishing his own daughter . The Queen 's decision was that the King should make a big grave-mound for her brother , and put Hadvor into it beside him . Olof knew all the plans of the Queen , and went to tell the Princess what had been done , whereupon Hadvor earnestly entreated her to tell her what to do . ` First and foremost , ' said Olof , ` you must get a wide cloak to wear over your other clothes , when you are put into the mound . The Giant 's ghost will walk after you are both left together in there , and he will have two dogs along with him . He will ask you to cut pieces out of his legs to give to the dogs , but that you must not promise to do unless he tells you where Hermod has gone to , and tells you how to find him . He will then let you stand on his shoulders , so as to get out of the mound ; but he means to cheat you all the same , and will catch you by the cloak to pull you back again ; but you must take care to have the cloak loose on your shoulders , so that he will only get hold of that . ' The mound was all ready now , and the Giant laid in it , and into it Hadvor also had to go without being allowed to make any defence . After they were both left there everything happened just as Olof had said .
The prince became a XXXXX again , and asked Hadvor to cut the pieces out of his legs for the dogs ; but she refused until he told her that Hermod was in a desert island , which she could not reach unless she took the skin off the soles of his feet and made shoes out of that ; with these shoes she could travel both on land and sea .
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