The young man struck the rock and it opened before him, and he found the beautiful black horse, and the giant’s sword and the suit lying before him.  He took out the sword alone, and he struck one blow with it and struck off the giant’s head.  Then he put back the sword into the rock, and went out again to his cattle, till it was time to drive them home to the farmer.

When they came to milk the cows they found a power of milk in them, and the farmer asked the young man if he had seen nothing out on the hills, for the other cow-boys had been bringing home the cows with no drop of milk in them.  And the young man said he had seen nothing.

The next day he went out again with the cows.  He lay down on his back in the heat of the day, and after a while he saw a black spot in the north-west, and it grew larger and nearer, till he saw it was a great giant coming to attack him.

‘You killed my brother,’ said the giant; ’come here, till I make a garter of your body.’

The young man went to him and caught him by the legs and drove him down into the hard ground up to his ankles.

Then he hit the rod against the rock, and took out the sword and struck off the giant’s head.

That evening the farmer found twice as much milk in the cows as the evening before, and he asked the young man if he had seen anything.  The young man said that he had seen nothing.

The third day the third giant came to him and said, ’You have killed my two brothers; come here, till I make a garter of your body.’

And he did with this giant as he had done with the other two, and that evening there was so much milk in the cows it was dropping out of their udders on the pathway.

The next day the farmer called him and told him he might leave the cows in the stalls that day, for there was a great curiosity to be seen, namely, a beautiful king’s daughter that was to be eaten by a great fish, if there was no one in it that could save her.  But the young man said such a sight was all one to him, and he went out with the cows on to the hills.  When he came to the rocks he hit them with his rod and brought out the suit and put it on him, and brought out the sword and strapped it on his side, like an officer, and he got on the black horse and rode faster than the wind till he came to where the beautiful king’s daughter was sitting on the shore in a golden chair, waiting for the great fish.

When the great fish came in on the sea, bigger than a whale, with two wings on the back of it, the young man went down into the surf and struck at it with his sword and cut off one of its wings.  All the sea turned red with the bleeding out of it, till it swam away and left the young man on the shore.

Then he turned his horse and rode faster than the wind till he came to the rocks, and he took the suit off him and put it back in the rocks, with the giant’s sword and the black horse, and drove the cows down to the farm.