The Mermaid and the Boy (Gutten, Havfruen og Ridder Rød; German: Der Knabe, die Meerfrau und Ritter Roth) is a Sámi fairy tale collected by in (Wein; 1886). Andrew Lang included an English-language version in The Brown Fairy Book (1904). It is Aarne-Thompson type 531. Other tales of this type include Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful, Corvetto, King Fortunatus's Golden Wig, and The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa. Another, literary variant is Madame d'Aulnoy's La Belle aux cheveux d'or, or The Story of Pretty Goldilocks.