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@Lady of The Lake wrote:
Please click on this link http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Who_Was_Hidden_Underground and it says a German Fairy Tale not Greek… and also on that article says:
The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground
The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground is a German fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in The Violet Fairy Book.[1]
SynopsisA king had three sons and divided his property. The older two squandered theirs, but the youngest son was prudent, and became rich. He had an underground castle built, killed the architect, imprisoned his daughter there, and decreed that whoever could find her would marry her, but whoever tried and failed would die. Many did die.
and here is another link about that tale
http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/054.htm
Wikipedia isn’t always right in every detail. The book I found the exact wording of the fairy tale in German in was first published in 1864 by Johann Georg von Hahn, who, besides being a diplomat for Prussia and later Austria in Athen, was a specialist in Albanian history and culture. He places the tale among other tales from the region of Epirus. The online version I linked to is based on an edition from 1918 though. The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang was first published in 1901 – stating as “source” for this particular fairy tale nothing besides “from German” (and both links, Wikipedia and the other refer to Andrew Lang)
Of course fairy Tales can be found in variations in different countries, it’s often not easy to tell, where they might have originated. And sometimes different fairy tales sound very alike. But so far I haven’t found any fairy tale alike or close to “The Princess Who was hidden Underground” in any older German fairy tale anthology.
Sorry for being so scholarly here. Having a thing for such unimportant details.
Should stop no one to look for interesting tales that might give ideas for the background of the sunken palace / castle used as den. Of course not.
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