Note 19 — THE LAZY SPINNING GIRL WHO BECAME A QUEEN. Kriza, iv.
Reading edition
See variants given in Henderson's Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties, pp. 258, 262.
Cf. Riddle set to three soldiers by the devil, and found out by the help of his grandmother. Grimm, vol. ii. pp. 152, 425. Also, Vernaleken, p. 206.