Serendipity language was by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann, Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made about a (lost) painting of Bianca Cappello by Giorgio Vasari by reference to a Persian fairy tale, "The Three Princes of Serendip". The princes, he told his correspondent, were "always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of". The name comes from "Serendip", an old name for Sri Lanka (Ceylon), hence "Sarandib" by Arab traders. It is derived from the Sanskrit "Siṃhaladvīpaḥ" (Siṃhalaḥ, Sri Lanka + dvīpaḥ, island).
The Three Princes and their Beasts Gold-Children, and The Knights of the Fish. The Three Princes and their Beasts The Three Princes and their Beasts is a Lithuanian fairy tale included by Andrew Lang in "The Violet Fairy Book". The actual source was "Von den drei Brüdern und ihren Thieren" from August Leskien und K. Brugman, in "Litauische Volkslieder und Märchen" (1882). Three princes had a stepsister. The four went hunting one day and were about to shoot a wolf when it offered to give each prince a cub if they did not. The same thing happened with a lioness, a fox, a hare, a boar