‘What are you going to do now?’ she asked of them.
‘I don’t know,’ answered the dwarf, and the giant too shook his head. So the Princess said:
‘Will you come and join our rejoicings?’
But the dwarf said:
‘No; I must be going back to my kingdom, or I don’t know what won’t happen.’
And the giant said:
‘And I’ll go too, or they might rebel there just as your subjects have done.’
So he said good-day, and in three minutes he had disappeared. The dwarf too said good-day quite politely for him, and then he struck the ground with the point of his lance, and immediately the earth opened before him and he marched into the opening at the head of his troops, and with their trumpets blowing and banners waving they disappeared, and the Princess never saw them nor their master again—and to tell the truth she was not very sorry. But the Prince and Princess marched back to the town at the head of the army, and there Lord Licec met them and congratulated the Princess on her success, and the people shouted for joy, and the bells pealed gladly.
So they marched through the town to the principal city, from which you may remember she had set out on the day before. And there they were received with even greater joy, and for six days there was feasting and rejoicing throughout the whole land, but on the seventh day, after the Princess had rewarded the knights who had fought the best, the army dispersed, and the town quieted down, and everything went on just as usual.