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Rh Then she wanted to buy it. No, it was not for sale for money, but she might have it if he might have her. Yes, she said, it was never worth living without it. It was all the same to her whither she went and whom she got, if she could only have that wreath; and so it was settled between them that he should fetch her when three days were up, and that day was a Thursday.



So when she came home with the wreath, every one was glad because she was glad again, and the king said, he thought it could never be so hard to stop a white bear. So the third day he turned out his whole army round the castle to withstand him. But when the white bear came there was no one who could stand before him, for no weapon would bite on his hide, and he hurled them down right and left, so that they lay in