"Stop!" cried the king of the elves. "I have had enough."
"I will stop when you set free the princess Ellen and my brothers," said Childe Rowland.
"I will set them free," said the king.
He went at once to a cupboard and took out a blood-red bottle.
Out of this bottle he let a drop or two fall upon the eyes of the two brothers, and up they jumped.
Childe Rowland took the hand of his sister and went out of the door, and up the long way.
The two brothers went after them and left the king of the elves alone.
Then they came out from the hill and found their way back to their own country.
How glad the queen was!