| The Princess on the Glass Hill | |
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p071.jpg) The princess sits atop the steep glass hill. Illustration from Barne-Eventyr (1915). | |
| Folk tale | |
| Name | The Princess on the Glass Hill |
| Aarne–Thompson grouping | ATU 530 (The Princess on the Glass Hill) |
| Country | Norway |
| Published in | Norske Folkeeventyr, by Asbjornsen and Moe |
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"The Princess on the Glass Hill" or "The Maiden on the Glass Mountain"[1] (Norwegian: Jomfruen på glassberget) is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in Norske Folkeeventyr.[2] It recounts how the youngest son of three obtains a magical horse and uses it to win the princess.
It is Aarne–Thompson type 530, which is named after it: the princess on the glass mountain. It is a popular type of tale, although the feats that the hero must perform in the second part, having obtaining the magical horse in the first, vary greatly.[3]
- ^ Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen; Moe, Jørgen; Nunnally, Tiina; Gaiman, Neil (2019). "The Maiden on the Glass Mountain". The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 232–239. doi:10.5749/j.ctvrxk3w0.55. ISBN 978-1-5179-0568-2. JSTOR 10.5749/j.ctvrxk3w0.55. S2CID 241641576.
- ^ George Webbe Dasent, translator. Popular Tales from the Norse. Edinburgh: David Douglass, 1888. "Princess on the Glass Hill"
- ^ Stith Thompson, The Folktale, p. 61-2, University of California Press, Berkeley Los Angeles London, 1977