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Dummling asked him what he was taking to heart so sorely, and he

answered: 'I have such a great thirst and cannot quench it; cold

water I cannot stand, a barrel of wine I have just emptied, but

that to me is like a drop on a hot stone!'

'There, I can help you,' said Dummling, 'just come with me and

you shall be satisfied.'

He led him into the king's cellar, and the man bent over the huge

barrels, and drank and drank till his loins hurt, and before the

day was out he had emptied all the barrels. Then Dummling asked

once more for his bride, but the king was vexed that such an ugly

fellow, whom everyone called Dummling, should take away his

daughter, and he made a new condition; he must first find a man

who could eat a whole mountain of bread. Dummling did not think

long, but went straight into the forest, where in the same place

there sat a man who was tying up his body with a strap, and

making an awful face, and saying: 'I have eaten a whole ovenful

of rolls, but what good is that when one has such a hunger as I?

My stomach remains empty, and I must tie myself up if I am not to

die of hunger.'