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 Dragon (fairy tale) The Dragon (fairy tale) The Dragon () is an Italian literary fairy tale, included in Giambattista Basile's "Pentamerone" (Tale IV.5), first published 1635. In the English language, the tale was a selection in Thomas Keightley's "Fairy Mythology" (1828), and later appeared in John Edward Taylor (fl. 1840-1855)'s translation of the entire work, "The Pentamerone, or, The Story of Stories, Fun for the Little Ones" (1848). The tale has been classed as a version of Aarne–Thompson type 462 "the outcast queens and the ogress queen", rather than as "the dragon-slayer" (type 300). It exhibits folkore motif K873, "fatal deception by giving