Maid Maleen

Maid Maleen
Arthur Rackham, 1917
Folk tale
NameMaid Maleen
Aarne–Thompson groupingATU 870
CountryGermany
Published inGrimms' Fairy Tales

"Maid Maleen" (German: Jungfrau Maleen) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, number 198.[1]

It is Aarne–Thompson type 870, "The Princess Confined in the Mound."[2]

  1. ^ Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Household Tales, "Maid Maleen" Archived 2014-07-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Uther, Hans-Jorg (2004). The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and a Bibliography. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia Academia Scientiarum Fennica. pp. 489–490.