Grimm’s Fairy Tales
never come? He is with you now, deceiver that you are. Did I deserve such treatment at your hands?’ Then he made himself visible, and went into the hall, and cried, ‘The wedding is stopped, the real King has come.’
The Kings, Princes, and Nobles who were present laughed him to scorn. But he only said, ‘Will you go, or will you not?’ They tried to seize him, but he drew his sword and said,
‘All heads off, mine alone remain.’
Then all their heads fell to the ground, and he remained sole King and Lord of the Golden Mountain.
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