De vilde Svaner

About “De vilde Svaner”

"The Wild Swans" is a literary fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen. It tells the story of a princess who saves her 11 brothers from a spell inflicted by an evil queen. The tale was first published on 2 October 1838 in Andersen's Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. First Booklet by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark. The story has been adapted into different forms of media, including ballet, television, and film. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)