“If I told you, O King, then I, too, should perish, for I should be turned into a blue cross and stood forever in the cemetery!”
“What nonsense!” the King exclaimed. “Who would turn you into a blue cross and stand you forever in the cemetery?”
“That is what I cannot tell you,” Log said.
The King laughed and pressed Log no further, but the people of the kingdom, scenting a mystery, insisted on knowing in detail what had happened the other two heroes. Presently the rumor began to spread that Log himself had done away with them in order that he might gather to himself all the glory of the undertaking.
The King was forced at last to send for him again and to demand a full account of everything.
Log realized that his end was near. He met it bravely. Commending to the King’s protection his lovely bride, the Youngest Princess, Log related how the three mighty Serpents whom they had killed were sons of Suyettar, and how in revenge Suyettar had succeeded in destroying Three Bottles and Six Bottles together with their brides. Then he told the fate about to overtake himself.
He finished speaking and as the King and the Court looked at him, to their amazement he disappeared.
“To the cemetery!” some one cried.
They all went to the cemetery where at once they found a fresh blue cross that had come there nobody knew how. There it stands to this day, a reminder of the life and deeds of the mighty hero, Log.
The King was overcome with sorrow at losing such a hero. He took Log’s bride under his protection and he found her so beautiful and so gentle that soon he fell in love with her and married her.