The Golden Bird

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The Golden Bird
The prince takes the princess, the horse and the golden bird in a cage, the fox at their side. Illustration by Walter Crane in Lucy Crane's translation Household stories from the collection of the Bros. Grimm (1882).
Folk tale
Name	The Golden Bird
Aarne–Thompson grouping	ATU 550 (The Quest for the Golden Bird; The Quest for the Firebird; Bird, Horse and Princess)
Region	Germany
Published in	Kinder- und Hausmärchen, by the Brothers Grimm (1812)
Related	The Bird 'Grip' The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon The Nunda, Eater of People

"The Golden Bird" (German: Der goldene Vogel) is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 57) about the pursuit of a golden bird by a gardener's three sons.^[1]

It is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as type ATU 550, "Bird, Horse and Princess", a folktale type that involves a supernatural helper (animal as helper). Other tales of this type include "The Bird 'Grip'", "The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener", "Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf", "How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon", and "The Nunda, Eater of People".^[2]