So stricken was he with her beauty that he stole among the lodges at night and carried her off to his mountain redoubt. There he lavished her with every gift that his imagination could bear. Of men, creatures, plants and minerals he made gifts, but she would not consent to receive any of them, for she said that she was promised to another.
For two years and two days he made gifts of every kind, but still the virgin Beleseri, would not relent. So it was that eventually Mykrojurs entered unto her chamber and forced himself upon her until she was made to be with child.
That evening Beleseri told the prince of Erenes that she would want only one gift, which she would receive with gratitude. Mykrojurs was elated saying, "I shall grant you two gifts of land, sea or sky -- whatever you ask."
So Beleseri asked for her freedom and the head of Mykrojurs. Which he granted to her that day. Beleseri used the riches of her house to entomb Mykrojurs and when her son Jondul became of age, she made a gift to him of his father's head.
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