The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener

The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener
The golden bird steals the apples under the gardener's son's watch. Frontispice illustration of More Celtic Fairy Tales by John D. Batten (1895).
Folk tale
NameThe Greek Princess and the Young Gardener
Aarne–Thompson groupingATU 550 (The Quest for the Golden Bird; The Quest for the Firebird; Bird, Horse and Princess)
RegionIreland
Published in
  • Fireside Stories of Ireland by Patrick Kennedy (1870)
  • More Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (1895)
RelatedThe Bird 'Grip'; The Golden Bird; Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf; How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon; The Nunda, Eater of People

The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener is an Irish fairy tale collected by Patrick Kennedy in Fireside Stories of Ireland.[1] Joseph Jacobs included it in More Celtic Fairy Tales.[2][3]

The tale is similar to Aarne-Thompson's type 550, "the quest for the golden bird/firebird",[4] the Scottish How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon and the German The Golden Bird .[2] Other fairy tales of this type include The Bird 'Grip', Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf, and The Nunda, Eater of People.[4]

  1. ^ Kennedy, Patrick (1870). The Fireside Stories of Ireland. M'Glashan and Gill.
  2. ^ a b Joseph Jacobs, More Celtic Fairy Tales, "The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener" Archived 2020-05-02 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Jacobs, Joseph (1894). More Celtic Fairy Tales. D. Nutt.
  4. ^ a b Heidi Anne Heiner,"Tales Similar to the Firebird Archived 2009-02-05 at the Wayback Machine"