Variants
In a version collected by Joseph Jacobs, the giant tricks the king into giving him his son, by demanding as payment the first thing to meet him when he returns, and the Master Maid wins her way to the prince not by repairing the carriage but by tricking her way into the prince's room, as in East of the Sun and West of the Moon.
In The Brown Bear of Norway, a variant of East of the Moon and West of the Sun, the heroine also must deal with the impudent servants when she reaches the castle where the prince lives and can not get in.
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