Dapplegrim

In the Norse story of "Dapplegrim," [346] a younger brother saves a princess who had been stolen by a Troll, and hidden in a cave above a steep wall of rock as smooth as glass.

Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858

The lad asked for these things and obtained them instantly, for the King thought that for very shame he could not refuse to give them, and so Dapplegrim got new shoes, and they were good ones.

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Dapplegrim; ‘and then you will hear what a voice it has.’

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But the third time Dapplegrim said: ‘Now we must show what we can do,’ and went at it once more till the stones sprang up sky high, and thus they got up.

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But the youth went down into the stable and asked Dapplegrim what she had done with herself.

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So they travelled on through many more different kinds of country, and then Dapplegrim neighed for the third time; but before he could ask the youth if he heard anything, there was such

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Dapplegrim had named, and once more, as the King thought that it would be disgraceful to refuse them to him, he obtained them all.

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And now it was his turn to go and hide himself; but Dapplegrim had given him such good instructions that it was not easy to find him.

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So he mounted Dapplegrim and rode away from the Court, and when he had ridden for a long, long time over hills and moors,

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Dapplegrim, and the tar over the field, and had got safely up into the spruce fir, a horse came with flame spouting from his nostrils, and the tar caught fire in a moment; and Dapplegrim and the horse began to fight until the stones leapt up to the sky.

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