The girl becomes a servant and is made to unload a dung heap and to wash a black cloth white as part of her tasks.
The girl declines his offer, but the man helps her anyway: he strikes the dung heap and the cloth with a red wand.
The man warns her that the jewel box belongs to a witch, and on the way there, she must fix a broken plank of a bridge, milk a cow, give water to a bull, shake a tree, enter the witch's house and accept the food she will offer (a milk bowl), but give it to the dog.
[10] The second revision of the folktale index, published in 1961 by Stith Thompson, located variants in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and among the Finnish-Swedish.
[11] Thompson and Swedish scholar Waldemar Liungman [sv] listed variants of the type in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Iceland and Russia.
[12][13] In a Danish tale from Vedersø [da] and published in magazine Skattegraveren with the title Hundebruden ("The Bride of the Hound"), a couple have a son named Jens Peter.
After his mother dies, his father remarries, but Jens Peter's stepmother, a witch, turns him into a poodle hound.
One day, a girl comes to work for the stepmother, and she orders her to milk four she-goats, then to winnow a pile of grains with a bottomless sieve, and finally to go to the witch's sister's house in a remote farm and ask for bread.
The little dog warns her not to eat anything when she arrives in Hell, and gives her advice on how to proceed: she is to feed the chicken and the cats, place firewood in a fire, and use a hook to hang some scythes to keep them from falling.
[19] In a Finnish-Swedish tale collected by G. A. Åberg from Strömfors with the title Te trölla prinsn, a girl finds work with an old woman.
As the third task, the old woman gives the girl a letter and orders her to deliver it to her sister, who lives across the lake.
The wolf gives another magic wand to the girl to create a dry passageway across the lake, and bread, firewood and two breadspades.
After listening to his daughter's tale, the man suggests Inga takes a light to her bed at night to better see her husband.
Inga takes service with the witch, who, before she leaves, orders the girl to wash black clothes white.
The next morning, the witch goes to check on Svarte Joder, and, seeing that Inga is on the bed, and her daughter burned to ashes, explodes in anger.
Lost at what to do, the girl cries, until the dog appears to help her and advises her how to proceed: she will see two men fetching water, to whom she is to give buckets; then she will pass by two woodcutters who are to be given axes; then by two bakers (who are to be given breadspades), and two people carding wool with their bare hands (who are to be given cards to help them).
After this sequence, the girl is to use two pillows to soften her passage between two gates, throw two pieces of bread to two dogs, enter the old woman's house and avoid sitting on a cushion (since a snake is hidden underneath it) and eating any food there.
The girl follows the dog's instructions to the letter and meets the witch, who forces her to eat a sausage and meatloaf.
The girl is helped by an ugly person called Dordingull, and the last task is for her to go to the Queen of the Dales (a character that Sveinsson considered to be a local and demythified Persephone).
[25] The vile ogress sends Helga to the Queen of the Dales or Dale-queen (Icelandic: Daladrottning) to get a brooch she left there and a game of chess.
After returning from the Dale-queen's with the game of chess, the witch orders Helga to make the bed, cook her hood and empty the slops - all in one night.
Before she crosses the bridge, the wolf intercepts her, gives her a wand and teaches her a magic command to open the waters to allow passage to Tiina's house.
The girl then escapes from Tiina's house, and the witch commands a person at an oven, the fire and the horse to stop her, to no avail.
The wolf then approaches the girl and takes her to his castle, instead of the witch's house, where they live together: he leaves by morning and returns at night, while she stays inside.
At the end of the tale, the werewolf prepares a large pyre and asks his wife to throw his clothes into the fire.
One day, when she is old enough, the king, has father, consults with his ministers the next step to protect her, and they suggest he builds an iron carriage for her.
Despite every measure of protection, while the princess is in her carriage, a strong gust of wind blows her away to an island where a fairy woman lives.
She introduces herself as a princess, and the fairy, in a mocking tone, dismisses any notions of royalty, and tells the girl she has to earn her bread by working for her.
The fairy's son visits the princess and tells her he would never mock her name, and advises her that his mother will force her to do things she will never be able to fulfill, so, at 11 o'clock in the evening, he will come and do it for her.
Back home, the fairy, noticing his son's tardiness, goes to check on him and sees his empty bedroom, then goes after the pair.