Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

“ Then she bought her a doctor's hat and a doctor's gown, and went to the king's castle, and offered to make the prince well again.
"No, no; it is no good," said the king. So many had been there and tried, but he always got worse instead of better. But she would not yield, and gave her word he should be well, and that soon and happily. Well, then, she might have leave to try, and so she went into the Green Knight's bedroom and washed him the first time. ”

“ The Green Knight
NCE on a time there was a king who was a widower, and he had an only daughter. But it is an old saying, that a widower's grief is like knocking your funny bone—it hurts, but it soon passes away; and so the king married a queen who had two daughters. ”

“ So the king went out to war, and whithersoever he went he won, and however things turned out he brought the things he had promised his stepdaughters; but he had clean forgotten what his own daughter had begged him to do, till at last he made a feast because he had won the day.
Then it was that he set eyes on a Green Knight, and all at once his daughter's words came into his head, and he greeted him in her name. The Green Knight thanked him for the greeting, and gave him a book which looked like a hymn-book with parchment clasps. That the king was to take home and give her ”