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The Brown Bear of Norway
Folk tale
Name
The Brown Bear of Norway
Aarne–Thompson grouping
ATU 425A (The Animal as Bridegroom)
Country
Ireland
Origin Date
1866
Published in
Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts
The Brown Bear of Norway is an Irish fairy tale collected by Patrick Kennedy which appeared in his Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts (1866).[1] It was later included by Andrew Lang in his anthology The Lilac Fairy Book (1910), though Lang misattributed his source as West Highland Tales (cf. The Brown Bear of the Green Glen).[2]
^Kennedy, Patrick, ed. (1866), "The Brown Bear of Norway", Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, Macmillan and Company, pp. 57–67
^Lang, Andrew, ed. (1910), "The Brown Bear of Norway", The Lilac Fairy Book, Longmans, Green, and Company, pp. 118–131, ISBN 9781615360857
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