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,
Russian fairy tale Pushkin wrote several "skazka" in the 1820s and 30s : Between 1855 and 1863, Alexander Afanasyev completed a collection of nearly 600 folk tales and variants in his three volume work entitled "Narodnye russkie skazki" [National Russian Tales] (For translations see Alexander Afanasyev § Works) Russian fairy tale A Skazka – () (Russian fairy tale or Russian folktale) is a Russian word literally meaning "story", but used to mean fairy tale or a fantasy tale. The term can be used in many different forms to determine the type of tale or story being told. A "volshebnaya skazka" [fairy tale] is