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The Brown Bear of Norway
Folk tale
NameThe Brown Bear of Norway
Aarne–Thompson groupingATU 425A (The Animal as Bridegroom)
CountryIreland
Origin Date1866
Published inLegendary 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]

  1. ^ Kennedy, Patrick, ed. (1866), "The Brown Bear of Norway", Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, Macmillan and Company, pp. 57–67
  2. ^ 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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