The Green Knight (fairy tale) The Green Knight (fairy tale) The Green Knight is a Danish fairy tale, collected by Svend Grundtvig (1824-1883) in "Danish Fairy Tales" (18??) and by Evald Tang Kristensen (1843-1929) in "Eventyr fra Jylland" (1881). Andrew Lang included a translation of Kristensen's version in "The Olive Fairy Book" (1907). This tale combines Aarne-Thompson type 510A with type 425N, the bird husband, and type 432, the prince as bird. Others of the first type include "Cinderella", The Sharp Grey Sheep, The Golden Slipper, The Story of Tam and Cam, Rushen Coatie, Fair, Brown and Trembling, and Katie Woodencloak; of the second two,
The Water of Life (German fairy tale) story. The king wished to punish the older brothers, but they had already boarded a ship and were never seen again. The Water of Life (German fairy tale) "The Water of Life" () is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 97. It is Aarne-Thompson type 551. John Francis Campbell noted it as a parallel of the Scottish fairy tale, "The Brown Bear of the Green Glen". A king was dying. An old man told his sons that the water of life would save him. Each one set out in turn. The two older ones, setting