A princess was a constant liar. The king said that anyone who got her to say "That's a lie" would marry her and get half the kingdom. After many had tried, three brothers did as well, and when it was the turn of the youngest son (named Boots in some versions, or Askeladden 'Ash-lad', in others), he traded lies with her: The princess claimed a farmyard too large for a man at one end to hear the horn blown at the other end; the son that a just bred cow that crossed their farmyard would give birth at the other side, and on with more tall tales until the son claimed he had seen her father and his mother cobbling, and his mother boxed her father's ears.
