Simon Roy Hughes 🧌 ⬋⬋⬋When in his fifteenth year the boy had been confirmed, the troll came for him. He was to marry the troll’s daughter, as his father had agreed, the troll said. The boy did not agree, however; he had given his word to Clara, their neighbour’s daughter, and she had given him hers. He would by no means break his own promise, he said, no matter what his father’s had been all those years ago.
Upon hearing this, the troll grew angry, and transformed the boy into a white bear. “Go out into the forest,” it shrieked. “Wander there until you decide to fulfil your father’s promise and marry my daughter.”
When Clara heard of what the troll had done to her sweetheart, she determined to go out to find him. Her father and mother tried to prevent her, but she had to go, she said, and go she would. So she packed as much food as she could carry in her knapsack and set off into the forest to find the boy.
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