Maid Lena (Danish fairy tale)
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Maid Lena (Danish fairy tale)
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Maid Lena is a Danish folktale collected by author Svend Grundtvig. It features versions of the swan maiden, a mythic female character that alternates between human and animal shapes. The story is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 400, "The Man on a Quest for the Lost Wife", in a form of the narrative that, according to scholars, appears in Northern Europe, namely, in Scandinavia and in the Baltic Sea.
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Danish folktale about swan maidens
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maid_Lena_(Danish_fairy_tale)
date created:
2024-07-04T12:35:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T00:16:53Z
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