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