In "The Lilac Fairy Book, " a large number of the tales - including a variation on the beauty and the beast story called "Brown Bear of Norway" - are from Irish sources; the Welsh "Mabinogion" provided the Arthurian legend of "The Winning of Olwen"; and other tales are from the more exotic traditions of India, Portugal, Brittany, and Scandinavia.
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The Lilac Fairy Book
By Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford
In "The Lilac Fairy Book, " a large number of the tales - including a variation on the beauty and the beast story called "Brown Bear of Norway" - are from Irish sources; the Welsh "Mabinogion" provided the Arthurian legend of "The Winning of Olwen"; and other tales are from the more exotic traditions of India, Portugal, Brittany, and Scandinavia.
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