fell a-gaping, as if he had been asleep and was just coming to himself again. The youth looked all about him, and asked the Anka where he was, and how he came there.
"Didn't I say that the Wind-Demon would twist thee round his little finger?" replied the Anka. "He ground all thy bones and sinews to dust, and we have only just now picked them all out of the basket. But now thou hadst better leave the matter alone, for if thou gettest once more into the clutches of this demon, I know that we shall never be able to put thee together again."
But the youth was not content to do this, but said he would go seek his consort a second time.
"Well, if thou art bent on going at any price," counselled the Anka, "go first to thy wife and ask her if she knows the Demon's talisman. If only thou canst get hold of that, even the Wind-Demon will be in thy power."
So again the King's son took horse, again he went right up to the Demon's palace, and as the Demon was dreaming dreams just then, the youth was able to find and converse with his wife. After they had rejoiced with a great joy at the sight of each other, the youth told the lady to discover the secret of the Demon's talisman, and win it by wheedling words and soft caresses if she could get at it no other way.
