“What good is it for you to be big when you are not a good soldier?”
“It is long since I have had time any day to kill birds. Many’s the time I was hungry when I killed the three hundred men. I had no time to kill birds for my breakfast in the morning. To-day I have time to kill plenty.”
“You will not kill a beast to-day,” said the champion of the red belt.
He then went killing. He killed. The big man went among the gathering of the birds. He was killing till night. He said he had enough killed.
Then they went home. They got ready their supper. They took their supper. They went to rest them. The king knight of the black castle was not going to rise very early. He had nothing to kill.
They were going to take a walk in the wood. “Is there a woman at all who is good for much on the island?” said the champion of the red belt.
“There is a king’s daughter on the island, and I think I would get her in marriage.”
He and his brother went to the king’s house. He got the king’s daughter in marriage. Came the priest of the pattens and the clerk of the bell. The pair were married. The wedding lasted nine nights and nine days. He took her home then. They stayed at home a couple of days until he rested.
“Now,” said the champion of the red belt, “you have a wife; it is time for me to go to my brother to make him alive.”