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 my goods.” To this Brunswik, though reluctantly, consented. But, when he had been with her some time, he was always thinking how he might return to his own country.

It came to pass that one day, as he was going to bed, he looked into a very old vault: there he saw an exceedingly old sword without a hilt, and taking it out observed how exceedingly sharp it was, and it pleased him greatly. So, taking the hilt from his own sword, he put it on the other and placed it in his own sword-sheath, leaving his own sword in the vault. And when he came to the damsel, he asked her questions about the sword that was in the vault. On hearing him speak of the sword, she rose up very early, and fastened up the vault with nine locks, and lay down again beside Brunswik and said: “It is marvellous to me how thou hast seen that sword, which no male person hath seen for many years. If thou knewest how much power that sword hath, thou wouldst marvel thereat.” Saith Brunswik: “Dear damsel! thou canst tell me; thou hast it all the same in thine own power.” Saith the damsel Africa: “If thou desirest to know, I will