About “The Six Swans”
"The Six Swans" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812. It is of Aarne–Thompson type 451, a tale type found throughout Europe, alongside stories such as The Seven Ravens, The Twelve Wild Ducks, Udea and her Seven Brothers, The Wild Swans, and The Twelve Brothers. Andrew Lang included a variant in The Yellow Fairy Book. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
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- 1812