#AmWriting a hitherto uncomposed #bisexual, #polyamorous#folktale collected in 1870, in Valle, Aust Agder, in southern #Norway. Nominally AT550 (the golden bird), though the only birds are two crow witches.
This folktale even escaped the attention of Oddbjørg Høgset, the editor of Erotiske folkeeventyr (which forms the foundation of my book from 2017, Erotic Folktales from Norway), because the record lives in a letter to Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, rather than in the folktale notebooks.
“When they were able to speak together, the king’s son told her how everything at come to pass. Now Ingebjørg felt regret for what she had believed of her beloved, and she knew not what to do. She was a married man, yet she did not want to lose her first love.”
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