The Green Knight (fairy tale) In all, they marry. 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;
The White Dove (French fairy tale) tale differs from "Bluebeard" chiefly in that the villain of the piece is not a human being whose only sign of abnormality is his beard, but a traditional giant, and that the heroine actively sends for her rescuers. The White Dove (French fairy tale) The White Dove is a French fairy tale collected by Gaston Maugard in "Contes des Pyrénées". It is Aarne-Thompson type 312, and an oral variant of the type, which is best known by the literary tale, "Bluebeard". A woman would not marry except to a man with a blue beard. One day, a giant with a