V.
After this debacle, Gofaric asked princess Colette why they kept coming to challenge him when it was so obvious that they could not possibly win. Colette explained that her hand had been promised. She, as fine a girl as had ever been seen thereabouts, with svelte figure, azure eyes and sungolden hair, would be wedlocked to him and have to clean his house, cook his favorite foods, wash his stinky clothes.....and sleep with him (ugh!). It was quite obvious to any man that she was well worth the hazard of one's life (humph!). So the gyant pondered her words.
VI.
Suddenly, Gofaric the gyant came to realize that he indeed liked the idea of wedlock overmuch. He picked up the princess and smashed his way into the cathedral, where he forced Bishop Abner to marry them! Colette has a hard life now, but she did gain eternal youth and a share of the gyant's immortality and strength through regular and prolonged exercise of his husbandly prerogatives.
fin
((there are many variations of this tale, as the mythology of Algarsheen is rich in gyant lore...........))
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