The King of the Golden Mountain

The King of the Golden Mountain
1876 illustration by George Cruikshank
Folk tale
NameThe King of the Golden Mountain
Aarne–Thompson groupingATU 810 + AaTh 401A, "The Enchanted Princess in Her Castle" + ATU 400, "The Man on a Quest for the Lost Wife"
CountryGermany
Published inGrimm's Fairy Tales

"The King of the Golden Mountain" (German: Der König vom goldenen Berg) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales (KHM 92).

The main version anthologized was taken down from a soldier; there is also a variant collected from Zwehrn (Zweheren) whose storyline summarized by Grimm in his notes.