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Pyle-Sir Gawain, illustration from the 1903 edition of The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, 1903. During a procession of King Arthur and his Court, the men see a dog pursuing a deer. Immediately after, the men see a knight and a lady attacked by another knight, who takes the woman captive.
The Knights of the Fish (Spanish: "Los Caballeros del Pez") is a Spanish fairy tale collected by Fernán Caballero in Cuentos. Oraciones y Adivinas. [3] Andrew Lang included it in The Brown Fairy Book. A translation was published in Golden Rod Fairy Book. [4] Another version of the tale appears in A Book of Enchantments and Curses by Ruth ...
Fairy tales are stories that range from those in folklore to more modern stories defined as literary fairy tales. Despite subtle differences in the categorizing of fairy tales, folklore, fables, myths, and legends, a modern definition of the literary fairy tale, as provided by Jens Tismar's monograph in German, [1] is a story that differs "from an oral folk tale" in that it is written by "a ...
The tale was added to the story collection One Thousand and One Nights by one of its European translators, Antoine Galland, who called his volumes Les Mille et Une Nuits (1704–1717). Galland was an 18th-century French Orientalist who heard it in oral form from a Syrian Maronite story-teller called Hanna Diyab , who came from Aleppo in modern ...
Illustration by John Dickson Batten from More English Fairy Tales. Bram Stoker's 1911 novel The Lair of the White Worm [15] and Ian Watson's 1988 novel The Fire Worm draw heavily on the Lambton Worm legend. This myth, along with many others originating from the North East, is retold in the graphic novel Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot. [16]
Roswall goes hunting and encounters a white knight from his former kingdom. The knight gives him a horse and armor to use to enter the tournament. Roswall wins but flees before being recognized. The next day, he encounters a gray knight who aids him in the same way, and the third day, a green knight does the same.
The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth, and the Water of Life" (Russian: Сказка о молодце-удальце, молодильных яблоках и живой воде) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki. The tale and is variants are numbered 171-178 in the first volume of the three ...
The Green Knight (Danish: Den grønne Ridder) [1] [2] is a Danish fairy tale, collected by Svend Grundtvig (1824-1883) in Danish Fairy Tales (18??) [3] and by Evald Tang Kristensen (1843-1929) in Eventyr fra Jylland (1881). [4] Andrew Lang included a translation of Kristensen's version in The Olive Fairy Book (1907). [4]