The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener | |
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Folk tale | |
Name | The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener |
Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 550 (The Quest for the Golden Bird; The Quest for the Firebird; Bird, Horse and Princess) |
Region | Ireland |
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Related | The 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]