Knight of the Swan
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The story of the Knight of the Swan, or Swan Knight, is a medieval tale about a mysterious rescuer who comes in a swan-drawn boat to defend a damsel, his only condition being that he must never be ask
A tapestry of 1482 showing episodes from the Knight of the Swan story: At the bottom puppies are substituted for babies.
Lohengrin postcard around 1900 by unknown artist
The Six Swans
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"The Six Swans" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812. It is of Aarne–Thompson type 451, commonly found throughout Europe. Other tales of this type incl
Knight of the Swan
…such chivalric romances as The Man of Law's Tale and Emaré, but such fairy tales as The Girl Without Hands. It also bears resemblance to the fairy tale The Six Swans, where brothers transformed into birds are rescued by the efforts of their sister. Scholarship seems to agree with the possibility of a combination of…
Illustration by Heinrich Vogeler