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 word master:
“My master is of churlish disposition,
And little recks to find the way to heaven
By doing deeds of hospitality.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)