She opens the casket and finds a dazzling dress in it. The daughter follows until she finds a castle where the princess and her husband are to be married. The youngest daughter stops the fight, but the princess also regains her form and takes the man who had been a lion with her on the griffin. It gives her a nut that will grow to a nut tree in the middle of the sea, which would allow the griffin to rest. The night wind advises her to strike the lion and dragon with a certain reed, to allow the lion to win and both creatures to regain their form, and then to escape on the back of a griffin. She asks the night wind, and it can not help her but tells her to wait for the others the east and west wind can not, but the south wind says that the dove was again a lion and fighting a dragon that is an enchanted princess near the Red Sea. She then asks the moon, who does not know, but gives her an egg. She climbs up to the sun and asks after the white dove the sun does not know, but gives her a casket. When the seven years are nearly up, the youngest daughter loses the trail. The dove tells his wife that for every seven steps she takes, he will drop a feather and a drop of blood, and perhaps she can track him by that, and flies off. When her sister's wedding procession goes by, candlelight falls on him, and he turns into a dove. The youngest daughter has a chamber built to protect him, but the door is made of green wood, and it warps, making a crack. The lion tells her that if any candlelight falls on him, he will be transformed into a dove for seven years. After her return, the lion tells her that her second sister is marrying, and she says he must go with her and their child. She goes, and her family is glad to see her. One night the lion tells her that her oldest sister is marrying and offers to send her with his lions. At the lion's castle, she is greeted by lions that, at night, turn human and she marries the lion whose lark her father had tried to take and lives with him, sleeping by day. When told of his promise, the daughter consoles her father and sets out the next morning to meet the lion. Just as the man has feared, his youngest daughter is the first to greet him. The man fears it will be his youngest daughter who greets him, but his servant persuades him to accept the bargain.
In exchange for their lives and the lark, the lion demands that the man bring him the first thing to meet him on his return home. Suddenly a lion springs out and threatens to kill them both for trying to steal the lark. On his journey home, the man sees a lark in a tall tree, and orders his servant to catch it. The man is able to find diamonds and pearls, but he fails to find a lark.
The oldest wants diamonds, the second pearls, and the youngest a singing, springing lark. One day, he must leave on a journey and asks each of his daughters what they would like him to bring back.
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