Swineherds in literature

• Hans Christian Andersen
  Hans Christian Andersen
  Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," "The Snow Queen," "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbelina," "The Little Match Girl," and "The Ugly Duckling."...
  
   wrote a Fairy tale
  Fairy tale
  A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features such folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. However, only a small number of the stories refer to fairies...
  
   called, "The Swineherd
  The Swineherd
  "The Swineherd" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a prince who disguises himself as a swineherd to woo an arrogant princess. The tale was first published 20  December 1841 by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen, Denmark in Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection. The...
  
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• In Greek mythology
  Greek mythology
  Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
  
  , Eumaeus
  Eumaeus
  In Greek mythology, Eumaeus was Odysseus's swineherd and friend before he left for the Trojan War. His father, Ktesios son of Ormenos, was king of an island called Syria. When he was a young child a Phoenician sailor seduced his nurse, a slave, who agreed to bring the child among other treasures...
  
   (or Eumaios) was Odysseus
  Odysseus
  Odysseus or Ulysses was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle....
  
  ' swineherd before he left for the Trojan War
  Trojan War
  In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology and was narrated in many works of Greek literature, including the Iliad...
  
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• In the Parable
  Parable
  A parable is a succinct story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or a normative principle. It differs from a fable in that fables use animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as characters, while parables generally feature human...
  
   of the Prodigal Son, the younger son wastes his inheritance
  Inheritance
  Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, rights and obligations upon the death of an individual. It has long played an important role in human societies...
  
   and eventually has to become a swineherd.
• In Lloyd Alexander
  Lloyd Alexander
  Lloyd Chudley Alexander was a widely influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents, as well as several adult books...
  
  's books based on Welsh mythology
  Welsh mythology
  Welsh mythology, the remnants of the mythology of the pre-Christian Britons, has come down to us in much altered form in medieval Welsh manuscripts such as the Red Book of Hergest, the White Book of Rhydderch, the Book of Aneirin and the Book of Taliesin....
  
  , The Chronicles of Prydain
  The Chronicles of Prydain
  The Chronicles of Prydain is a five-volume series of children's fantasy novels by author Lloyd Alexander...
  
  , the hero
  Taran (character)
  Taran is a fictional character in The Chronicles of Prydain series, as well as in the film and game named after the second novel, The Black Cauldron.-Profile:...
  
   is a pig keeper, or swineherd.
• The character Gurth, in Sir Walter Scott's book "Ivanhoe" is a swineherd.
• The main character in the Disney movie The Black Cauldron
  The Black Cauldron (film)
  The Black Cauldron is a 1985 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and originally released to theatres on July 24, 1985...
  
  is a swineherd.
• Among Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
  Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
  Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is an Irish poet born in Cork .-Life:Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin. She was educated at University College Cork and The University of Oxford. She lives in Dublin with her husband Macdara Woods, and they have one...
  
  's most famous work is the essay "Swineherd".
• The protagonist in H.P. Lovecraft's story, "The Rats In the Wall," has reoccurring nightmares of a bearded daemon swineherd.