| Folk Tale Name: | The Charcoal Burner |
| Aarne-Thompson Grouping: | 1641 |
| Aka: | Kullbrenneren |
| Country: | Norway |
| Published In: | Norwegian Folktales |
The Charcoal Burner is a Norwegian fairy tale, collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe.
Published in the book Norwegian Folk Tales 1 (1990)
It is similar to the Grimm Brothers tale known as Doctor Know-all http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm098.html, and is classified as Aarne–Thompson Type 1641, "Being in the right place at the right time". Another tale of this type is Almondseed and Almondella.
A charcoal burner becomes a parson by means of various tricks.
Unintentionally he detects some thieves in the king's castle, gains a prophetic reputation in the church, passes a test set by the king, and predicts the queen's having twins. http://oaks.nvg.org/lg4ra7.html