he had to exchange her, and turned himself into a replica of her. The youngest son got back his father's vine and married the real golden maiden as well. Translations Karel Jaromír Erben, in a collection of Slavic fairy tales, translated the tale as Chromá liška ("The Limping Fox"), and sourced it from Serbia. French Slavicist Louis Léger translated the tale as L’œil qui pleure et l’œil qui rit, ou le renard boiteux ("The Eye that Cries and the Eye that Laughs, or The Limping Fox"). Serbian translator Nada Ćurčija Prodanović published the tale as The King's Vine, in her collection of Yugoslav folktales. Her version keeps the prince's quest for the king's vine, a golden apple, and a golden girl. Analysis Tale type This tale shows similarities with Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index tale type ATU 550, "Bird, Horse and Princess", more famously represented by German fairy tale The Golden Bird. The tale also shares a similar motif that appears in both ATU 550 and ATU 551, "The Water of Life": the king whose eyes both laugh and cry at the same time. This entices his son's curiosity and it is what motivates the quest for the object that can appease the king's sorrow. Motifs The motif of the crying king appears as an independent tale in the Hungarian Folktale Catalogue, under typing MNK 463**, "A síró-nevető szemű király". According to Hungarian folklorist Katalin Benedek (hu), research shows that the motif appears frequently as the introduction of tale type ATU 551, "The Water of Life" (or "Sons on a Quest for a Wonderful remedy for their father"). The motif may also introduce type ATU 550, "Bird, Horse and Princess" (or "The Golden Bird"), and Hungarian tales of type ATU 301, "Prince Mirkó". Variants In a Hungarian tale, A csodás szőlőtő ("The Wonderful Grapevine"), three princes ask their father, the king, why one of his eyes laughs while the other cries. This prompts a quest for the king's lost grapevine and, later, for a horse and a princess. See also How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon The Bird 'Grip' The Fairy Aurora The Golden Bird The Little Green Frog Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf References External links The Lame Fox Serbian fairy tales ATU 500-559