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;
Fairy tale parody Fairy tale parody Fairy tale parody is a genre of fiction which parodies traditional fairy tales. The genre was popularized on television by the "Fractured Fairy Tales" segments on "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show". The 2001 computer-animated film "Shrek" brought great popularity to the genre. Parodies soon eclipsed traditional fairy tales. The genre garnered some praise for its more modern views but was also criticized for supplanting the traditional stories. Children's books that have been classified as fairy tale parodies: "Politically Correct Fairy Tales" and "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern tales for our life and times" by James Finn Garner