The King's Son and Messeria

The King's Son and Messeria (Swedish: Konunga-Sonen och Messeria; German: Der Königssohn und Messeria) is a Swedish folktale collected by Swedish folktale collectors George Stephens and Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius in the mid-19th century, from South Småland.

It is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 313, "The Magic Flight", to which also belongs the Norwegian tale The Master Maid, in that the hero falls under the power of an antagonist and forced to perform impossible tasks, but he is secretly helped by the antagonist's maid, and both escape from his captor by transforming into objects.

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