"The Princess on the Glass Hill" or "The Maiden on the Glass Mountain" is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in Norske Folkeeventyr. It recounts how the young
The princess sits atop the steep glass hill. Illustration from Barne-Eventyr (1915).
The gallant knight climbs up the Glass Mountain. Illustration for Barne-Eventyr (1915).
The youth, on the horse, reaches the princess's tower atop the mountain. Woodcut by Ludwig Richter to Bechstein's fairy tale Hirsedieb (1853).
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"The Golden Bird" is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm about the pursuit of a golden bird by a gardener's three sons. The Grimms included it as Tale 57 in the very first volume of their fam
The Princess on the Glass Hill
…develops more heroic attributes. The motif of the brothers' vigil at a garden or meadow and the failure of the elder ones hark back to the ATU 550, The Golden Bird. Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald noted in Ehstnische Mährchen (1869) that in several variants the youngest of three brothers, often called stupid or…
The gardener's youngest son sights the Golden Bird in the king's garden
The prince rides on the fox's back. Illustration by George Cruikshank for Grimm's Goblins, by Edgar Taylor (1823).