The Black Bull of Norroway
- Date of account
- Nineteenth-century Scottish collections; Andrew Lang 1890 version
- Location
- Scotland; unspecified northern or fairyland setting
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
“The Black Bull of Norroway” is a Scottish wonder tale in which a heroine travels with or follows an enchanted black bull, survives successive trials, and reaches a realm governed by transformation and marriage enchantment. Andrew Lang printed a version in The Yellow Fairy Book (1894), while related nineteenth-century Scottish collections preserve comparable material. The tale is relevant to boundary-crossing through its movement from household life into an enchanted landscape and back through disenchantment. Textual variants and the tale’s relation to broader animal-bridegroom traditions require comparison.
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