"East of the Sun and West of the Moon" is a Norwegian fairy-tale. It was collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, who compiled it from variants they recorded in the regions of Ringerike
By candlelight, the heroine discovers the identity of her sleeping husband.
The white bear carries his intended on his back. Illustration from The Blue Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford.
The North Wind carries the maiden across the stormy sea. Illustration from The Blue Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford.
Illustration by Kay Nielsen 1
Beauty and the Beast
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"Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published anonymously in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
…Ground". It was likely an offspring from the tale of "Cupid and Psyche" in The Golden Ass, which gave rise to similar animal bridegroom cycles such as "Beauty and the Beast". A white bear approaches a poor peasant and asks if he will give him his prettiest and youngest daughter; in return, the bear will make the man rich…
Beauty releases the prince from his beastly curse. Artwork from Europa's Fairy Book, by John Batten.
Illustration by Warwick Goble.
A Serbian translation from 1787, published in the old Slavonic-Serbian literary language, translated by Avram Mrazović.
Painting of Petrus Gonsalvus (c. 1580).