Note 6 — Chapter V · SLOVAK, MORAVIAN, AND BOHEMIAN GYPSY STORIES

Then they went to seek the other dragon6 in the cavern. He had fifteen heads, and was three times as strong as the first. The maiden whom this dragon had carried off showed Bruntslikos a sword, twice as heavy as the first. He could just move it, but not lift it clear off the earth. But she gave him wine to drink, and then he was straightway stronger. She too had greeted Bruntslikos, when he came, with the words, ‘How comest thou here, my beloved? Here must thou lose thy life, for my husband will kill thee.’