The Magic Tree Trunks

Besides being an ogress she was also a witch, and Laufer had been terrified of all the terrible things she might do if she did not go along with what her false mother wanted. Blauvor was the one, Lineik said, who had pulled the Prime Minister's ship to their land from the fog. It was she who had sunk the ship in which Sigurd and Sophie's father had set sail. And it was she who had caused the strange disappearances of the palace attendants, for which no one could account, by eating them during the night. She hoped to get rid of all the people in the country and then to fill the land with ogres and ogresses like herself. Only through the black arts, Lineik told them, could she be defeated.

So the Prince of Greece summoned a wizard skilled in artful magic to come with them. Then he swiftly collected an army and he, alongside Prince Sigurd, marched upon the town where Blauvor had her palace. They came so suddenly that no one knew of it. Even if they had known, Blauvor had already eaten most of the strong men and the others, fearful of something they could not tell what, had secretly escaped from the palace. Therefore Blauvor was easily captured and the wizard saw to it that her powers and her strength were stripped away. She was then set sail to a distant island and no one ever heard from her again. Afterwards, the two princes returned to Greece.

Princess Sophie had no longer any reason for putting off her wedding to the Prince of Greece. So the two of them married and, at the same time, her brother Sigurd married Lineik, who was fully forgiven. Prince Sigurd and his new bride, Lineik, returned to his homeland to rule while Princess Sophie remained in Greece to rule with her new husband. Yet the brother and sister stayed close in the years that followed, visited each another as frequently as they could, and they all lived happily ever after.