 A. H. Wratislaw collected a Polish variant "Prince Unexpected" in his "Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources", number 17.A shorter, also Polish version, "The Unlooked for Prince", was collected by Louis Léger in "Contes Populaires Slaves" and included by Andrew Lang in "The Grey Fairy Book".Josef Baudiš published Czech version in English, named "Kojata", in his book of Czech folk tales "The Key of Gold" in 1917 (reprinted 1922).