This article is about the Norwegian fairy tale. For the stage play, see The Master Thief (play).
The Master Thief
The lord mistakingly shoots the decoy dummy. Illustration from Joseph Jacobs's Europa's Fairy Book (1916) by John D. Batten.
Folk tale
Name
The Master Thief
Also known as
Mestertyven; Die Meisterdieb
Aarne–Thompson grouping
1525A
Country
Norway
Published in
Norske folkeeventyr
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Red Fairy Book
"The Master Thief" is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Chr. Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe.[1][2] The Brothers Grimm included a shorter variant as tale 192 in their fairy tales. Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book. George Webbe Dasent included a translation of the tale in Popular Tales From the Norse.[3]
It is Aarne–Thompson type 1525A, Tasks for a Thief.[4]
^Chapman, Frederick T. (1972). "The Master Thief". In Undset, Sigrid (ed.). True and Untrue and Other Norse Tales. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 213–232. ISBN 978-0-8166-7828-0. JSTOR 10.5749/j.ctt4cgg4g.27.
^Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen; Moe, Jørgen (2019). "The Master Thief". The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 140–152. doi:10.5749/j.ctvrxk3w0.38. ISBN 978-1-5179-0568-2.
^Dasent, George Webbe. Popular Tales from the Norse. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1912. pp. 232–251.
^Uther, Hans-Jorg. The Types of International Folktales. 2004.
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