Others of this type include Bella Venezia, Nourie Hadig, La petite Toute-Belle and Myrsina.
A king's son had asked to marry Gold-Tree, so her father agreed and sent them off; then he gave his wife the heart and liver of a he-goat, at which she got up from her bed.
Silver-Tree went back to the trout, which told her Gold-Tree was still more beautiful, and living abroad with a prince.
The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 709, "Snow White".
He also remarked that publisher and Celtic folklorist Alfred Nutt called Jacobs's attention to the Breton lai of Eliduc.
[5] According to Alan Bruford, Donald A. MacDonald and Christine Shojaei Kawan, the speaking trout in a pool replaces the mirror in Gaelic, Scottish and Irish variants of the tale type ATU 709, as part of the Irish-Scottish oikotype of ATU 709.