"You have pronounced doom on yourselves. Such punishment shall you
suffer!"
He ordered the two women to be taken out to die as they themselves had
said, and no one save Swanwhite begged him to have mercy on them.
After that the king was married to the beautiful maiden, and all folk
agreed that nowhere could be found a finer queen. The king gave his own
sister to the brave young man, and there was great joy in all the king's
palace.
There they live prosperous and happy unto this day, for all I know.