“Are you sure that it was that woodcutter who killed the dragon?”
They answered that it certainly was, for the heads were preserved in the palace.
The knight said nothing, but when he thought the proper time had come he rode to the palace. The princess saw him from the window, and she wondered who it might be. He was ushered in, and he went straight to the princess and told her everything. He asked her whether he might attend the wedding.
She answered: “I am not at all pleased with my marriage. I would much rather marry you, sir.”
He asked her why.
“If he killed the dragon he must be a great man.”
“He is such a low-born man,” said she, “that it is not likely that he killed the dragon.”
“I should like to see him,” said he.
So they brought the woodcutter before him, and the knight asked to see the heads. So they brought the heads. He looked at the heads and said:
“There are no tongues in these heads. Where are the tongues?”