She Had Distributed Her Challenges Over All The Kingdoms,
Declaring That Whosoever Should Come To Try A Fall With Her, It Should Be
On These Conditions, Viz., That If She Vanquished Him She Should
Win From Him 100 Horses, And If He Vanquished Her He Should Win Her To
Wife.
Hence many a noble youth had come to try his strength against her,
but she beat them all; and in this way she had won more than 10,000
horses.
Now it came to pass in the year of Christ 1280 that there presented
himself a noble young gallant, the son of a rich and puissant king, a man
of prowess and valiance and great strength of body, who had heard word of
the damsel's challenge, and came to match himself against her in the hope
of vanquishing her and winning her to wife. That he greatly desired, for
the young lady was passing fair. He, too, was young and handsome, fearless
and strong in every way, insomuch that not a man in all his father's realm
could vie with him. So he came full confidently, and brought with him 1000
horses to be forfeited if she should vanquish him. Thus might she gain
1000 horses at a single stroke! But the young gallant had such confidence
in his own strength that he counted securely to win her.
Now ye must know that King Caidu and the Queen his wife, the mother of the
stout damsel, did privily beseech their daughter to let herself be
vanquished.
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