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youngest prince was to have the princess, for she was one, of course; but as for the two elder brothers, they put them each into his own cask full of nails, and rolled them down a steep hill.
So they made ready for the bridal; but first the fox said to the prince he must lay him on the chopping-block, and cut his head off, and whether he thought it good or ill, there was no help for it, he must do it. But as he dealt the stroke the fox became a lovely prince, and he was the princess's brother, whom they had set free from the Trolls.
So the bridal came on, and it was so great and grand, that the story of that feasting spread far and wide, till. it reached all the way to this very spot.
