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 Robber Bridegroom (fairy tale) The Robber Bridegroom (fairy tale) "The Robber Bridegroom" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 40. Joseph Jacobs included a variant, "Mr Fox" in "English Fairy Tales", but the original provenance is much older; Shakespeare (circa 1599) alludes to the "Mr. Fox" variant in "Much Ado About Nothing", Act 1, Scene 1: It is Aarne–Thompson type 955, the robber bridegroom. This type is closely related to tales of type 312, such as "Bluebeard", and type 311, such as "How the Devil Married Three Sisters" and "Fitcher's Bird". A miller wished to marry his daughter off,