Shortshanks is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in Norske Folkeeventyr.
King Sturdy said that Shortshanks could summon him by calling his name three times, but should do so only in the last extremity.
Shortshanks asked for a long iron cable, five hundred men, and food for them all, and had it put on his ship.
At the bottom, he found the princess, who told him that the ogre was looking for someone who could brew one hundred lasts of malt at once, for his feast.
Shortshanks sent him into the house, saying that whichever princess kissed him would marry him, because the older was stronger and bigger and would reach him first.
A version titled Lillekort was published in The Diamond Fairy Book and attributed to Xavier Marmier.