As she said this she yawned tremendously , and in a moment had put on the appearance of a fearfully ugly troll . Then there came up through the floor of the room a three-headed Giant with a trough full of meat , who saluted her as his sister and set down the trough before her . She began to eat out of it , and never stopped till she had finished it . The young fellows saw all this going on , but did not hear the two of them say anything to each other . They were astonished though at how greedily the Queen devoured the meat , and how much she ate of it , and were no longer surprised that she took so little when she sat at table with the King . As soon as she had finished it the Giant disappeared with the trough by the same way as he had come , and the Queen returned to her human shape . Now we must go back to the King 's son after he had been put in charge of the nurse . One evening , after she had lit a candle and was holding the child , several planks sprang up in the floor of the room , and out at the opening came a beautiful woman dressed in white , with an iron belt round her waist , to which was fastened an iron chain that went down into the ground . The woman came up to the nurse , took the child from her , and pressed it to her breast ; then she gave it back to the nurse and returned by the same way as she had come , and the floor closed over her again . Although the woman had not spoken a single word to her , the nurse was very much frightened , but told no one about it . Next evening the same thing happened again , just as before , but as the woman was going away she said in a sad tone , ` Two are gone , and one only is left , ' and then disappeared as before . The nurse was still more frightened when she heard the woman say this , and thought that perhaps some danger was hanging over the child , though she had no ill-opinion of the unknown woman , who , indeed , had behaved towards the child as if it were her own . The most mysterious thing was the woman saying ` and only one is left ; ' but the nurse guessed that this must mean that only one day was left , since she had come for two days already . At last the nurse made up her mind to go to the King , and told him the whole story , and asked him to be present in person next day about the time when the woman usually came . The King promised to do so , and came to the nurse 's room a little before the time , and sat down on a chair with his drawn sword in his hand . Soon after the planks in the floor sprang up as before , and the woman came up , dressed in white , with the iron belt and chain . The King saw at once that it was his own Queen , and immediately hewed asunder the iron chain that was fastened to the belt . This was followed by such noises and crashings down in the earth that all the King 's Palace shook , so that no one expected anything else than to see every bit of it shaken to pieces . At last , however , the noises and shaking stopped , and they began to come to themselves again . The King and Queen embraced each other , and she told him the whole story -- how the Witch came to the ship when they were all asleep and sent her off in the boat .
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