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White-Bear-King-Valemon
Sign in to saveWhite-Bear-King-Valemon () is a Norwegian fairy-tale. The tale was published as No. 90 in Asbjørnsen and Moe's Norske Folke-Eventyr. Ny Samling (1871). George Webbe Dasent translated it for his Tales from the Fjeld.
Key facts
- Folk tale.Folk_Tale_Name
- White-Bear-King-Valemon
- Folk tale.Image_Name
- File:TheodorKittelsen-KvitebjørnKongValemon(1912).JPG
- Folk tale.Image_Caption
- White-Bear King Valemon by Theodor Kittelsen.
- Folk tale.Aarne Thompson Grouping
- ATU 425A, The Animal (Monster) as Bridegroom
- Folk tale.AKA
- Kvitebjørn kong Valemon
- Folk tale.Region
- Norway
- Folk tale.Published_In
- Norske folkeeventyr, by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe
- Folk tale.Related
- East of the Sun and West of the Moon (ATU 425A) Cupid and Psyche (ATU 425B) Beauty and the Beast (ATU 425C)
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- literary work
- Genre
- fairy tale
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- Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index
- 425A
- language of work or name
- Norwegian
- Commons category
- White-Bear-King-Valemon
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Synopsis
- Publication
- Analysis
- Tale type
- Motifs
- The heroine's journey
- Other motifs
- Variants
- Norway
- Sweden
- In media
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
White-Bear-King-Valemon () is a Norwegian fairy-tale. The tale was published as No. 90 in Asbjørnsen and Moe's Norske Folke-Eventyr. Ny Samling (1871). George Webbe Dasent translated it for his Tales from the Fjeld.
The familiar version was collected by the artist August Schneider in 1870 from Setesdal. Jørgen Moe collected a variant of the tale from Bygland, summarized in the 2nd edition of Norske Folke-Eventyr (1852).
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