The Master Maid is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their Norske Folkeeventyr. "Master" indicates "superior, skilled." Jørgen Moe wrote the tale down from the storyteller Anne Godlid in Seljord on a short visit in the autumn of 1842.
It is Aarne-Thompson type 313. Others of this type include The Two Kings' Children, The Water Nixie, Jean, the Soldier, and Eulalie, the Devil's Daughter, Nix Nought Nothing, and Foundling-Bird.
Famous quotes containing the words master and/or maid:
“The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.”
—Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)
“No more but e’en a woman, and commanded
By such poor passion as the maid that milks
And does the meanest chares.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)