Snouk but and snouk ben, I find the smell of an earthly man; Be he living, or be he dead, His heart shall be kitchen to my bread.
He quickly espied the young man, and bade him come forth on the floor. And then he put the three questions to him, but the young man had been told everything by the good fairy, so he was able to answer all the questions. When the Etin found this he knew that his power was gone. The young man then took up the axe and hewed off the monsters three heads. He next asked the old woman to show him where the Kings daughters lay; and the old woman took him upstairs and opened a great many doors, and out of every door came a beautiful lady who had been imprisoned there by the Etin; and ane o the ladies was the Kings daughter. She also took him down into a low room, and there stood two stone pillars that he had only to touch wi his wand, when his two friends and neighbors started into life. And the hale o the prisoners were overjoyed at their deliverance, which they all acknowledged to be owing to the prudent young man. Next day they a set out for the Kings Court, and a gallant company they made. And the King married his daughter to the young man that had delivered her, and gave a nobles daughter to ilk ane o the other young men; and so they a lived happily a the rest o their days.[1]
[1] Chambers, Popular Traditions of Scotland.
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