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 a tremendous tempest. About noontime they reached the palace, but the Northwest had become so tired that he was obliged to rest under a tree while the young man put off the slippers. He walked the last part of the way without slippers, otherwise he would have passed without seeing it.

When he entered the palace the princess received him gleefully. She had never dared to think that he would ever be able to reach her again. Their wedding was celebrated in a gorgeous manner, and they are living yet, happy and contented, in their beautiful palace south of the sun, west of the moon, and in the middle of the wind.