- King's son has a bride he loves, but the news of his father forces him to leave the woman with a ring and a promise to return
- King asks the son to marry someone other than whom the young man loved
- The Son marries
- "When they came to the king's daughter, she had twelve suits of huntsmen's clothes made, all alike, and the eleven maidens had to put on the huntsmen's clothes, and she herself put on the twelfth suit"
- these 12 became part of the King's service
- The lion tells the king the huntsmen are actually females
- challenge after challenge is given to prove the huntsmen are females
- first: pea challenge
- second: spinning wheel
- on the hunt, at the news of the actual wife approaching, the lover in the huntsman disguise fainted and the King then saw the ring when he pulled her glove off
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