The Blue Bird (fairy tale)
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"The Blue Bird" is a French literary fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy, published in 1697. An English translation was included in The Green Fairy Book, 1892, collected by Andrew Lang.
The princess is given a necklace by the Prince, under the guise of a blue bird.
Cover of an edition of The Blue Bird
Florine bribes her stepsister.
The Green Knight is a Danish fairy tale, collected by Svend Grundtvig in Danish Fairy Tales and by Evald Tang Kristensen in Eventyr fra Jylland. Andrew Lang included a translation of Kristensen's vers
The Blue Bird (fairy tale)
…collected by Andrew Lang. The tale is Aarne–Thompson type 432, The Prince as Bird. Others of this type include "The Feather of Finist the Falcon", "The Green Knight", and "The Greenish Bird". After a wealthy king loses his dear wife, he meets and falls in love with a woman, who is also recently widowed and they…
The Green Bird, in avian form, arrives to greet his beloved princess. Illustration for Princess Sorrowful and the Green Knight from a 1909 book.