The Goose Girl

The Goose Girl
"The Goose Girl", Illustration by Heinrich Vogeler
Folk tale
NameThe Goose Girl
Aarne–Thompson groupingATU 533
CountryGermany
Published inGrimms' Fairy Tales

"The Goose Girl" (German: Die Gänsemagd) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm and first published in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1815 (KHM 89). It is of Aarne-Thompson type 533.[1]

The story was first translated into English by Edgar Taylor in 1826, then by many others, e.g. by an anonymous community of translators in 1865, by Lucy Crane in 1881, by LucMargaret Hunt in 1884, etc. Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book in 1889.

  1. ^ Ashliman, D. L. (2002). "The Goose-Girl". University of Pittsburgh.