Dapplegrim facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Dapplegrim
Boots, the knight, chooses the best horse in the harras. Illustration by Henry Justice Ford for Andrew Lang's The Red Fairy Book (1890).
Folk tale
Name	Dapplegrim
Also known as	Grimsborken
Data
Aarne–Thompson grouping	ATU 531 (The Clever Horse)
Region	Norway
Published in	Norske Folkeeventyr, by Asbjørnsen and Moe
Related	The Story of Pretty Goldilocks Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa Corvetto King Fortunatus's Golden Wig The Mermaid and the Boy

Dapplegrim is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr. Andrew Lang included it in The Red Fairy Book.

Translations

The tale was published in a compilation of world folktales, by illustrator Katharine Pyle. The tale was also translated and published by George Webbe Dasent.

The tale was translated into French with the title Le Cheval Prodige ("The Prodigious Horse").

Joseph Jacobs inserted the horse Dapplegrim as the giant's mount in his reconstructed protoform of the Norwegian tale The Master Maid, published in Europa's Fairy Book.