wife, must quest for "the most marvellous bird" in the world, the White Glaive of Light and the Sun Goddess (named Dia Greine), "daughter of the king of the gathering of Fionn". He is helped in his tasks by a fox, which is the Sun Goddess's brother transformed. Campbell, in his commentary to the variant, noted that this Scottish tale was "the same legend" as the German tale The Golden Bird, by the Brothers Grimm. Francis Hindes Groome republished the tale The Fox in his book Gypsy Folk-Tales. Ireland Author Seumas MacManus published an Irish variant in his work Donegal Wonder Book. In this tale, titled The Hound of the Hill of Spears, prince Owen is fond of fowling, and finds the feathers of a Blue Hawk. His new step-mother, who hates him, knows that the bird belongs to the Giant of the Seven Heads and Seven Trunks, and casts a geasa on Owen to not return home until he brings the Blue Hawk of Connaught. On his journey, he shares his food with a white hound that introduces himself as the White Hound of the Hill of Spears. With the hound's help, Owen takes part in a chain of quests for the Blue Hawk of Connaught, the Sword of Light from the King of Denmark, the Steed of Bells from the King of Spain, and the beautiful princess Starlight, daughter of the King of Greece. In order to trick the owners of the treasures, the White Hound shapeshifts into the princess, the steed, the sword and the hawk. See also "The Sister of the Sun" "The Golden Bird" "The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener" "Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye" "The Bird 'Grip'" "The Little Green Frog" "The Golden Mermaid" "Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf" "The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa" References External links Mac Iain Direach Scottish fairy tales Fictional princes ATU 500-559 John Francis Campbell