Cinderella meets Cinder-fella

[arbre_rieur]

Four pages from Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love #5...







Sneaking into the Glass Palace, Ultima Thule's seat of power, Cinderella comes face to face with the new monarch.




creator: chris roberson, creator: shawn mcmanus, title: fables, publisher: vertigo

Comments

[ghosty732]

Not being familiar with Norwegian folklore, I missed out on the fact that all of the characters she meets are from other stories.
The Widow Gudbrand is most likely the widow of Gudbrand-on-the-Hillside, Askelladan is a popular character in many Norwegian fables, Little Freddy is from "Little Freddy and his Fiddle" and as you mentioned king Valemon is indeed a white-bear king.

Any idea who the girl with the goose is, though?

[ghosty732]

Oh, I just found it somewhere else. Little Annie the Goose-girl.

[superboyprime]

And the Pig and Ram are from the story of the Pig and Ram who built a house together.

[arbre_rieur]

"Askelladan is a popular character in many Norwegian fables"

Yes, the "Ash Lad," or Cinder-fella...