ATU 300: The Dragon-Slayer

Wahrscheinliche Zuordnung · Gesamte Erzählung

The inspected ATU 300 description centers on a hero who saves a princess from a dragon, is falsely displaced by a rival, then has the deception exposed and marries her. Those defining events are explicit. This variant substitutes grateful animal helpers for the familiar helper animals and a letter/fox for the proof at the wedding; the catalogue explicitly notes combinations involving 567. The bird-heart prophecy and later petrification/rescue are additional linked episodes in this single narrated tale, not reasons to split its plot.

• „kam er in eine Stadt, die mit schwarzem Flor umzogen war.“
• „Die Thiere packten den Drachen an, und der Jäger schlug wacker drauf los, daß der Drache bald todt dalag.“
• „Die Prinzessin erschrak zuerst, dann nahm sie den Brief und las ihn.“