Grimms Märchen (Grimms' fairy tales) influenced Spinning Silver

Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver grew from a retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, the Grimms' tale of a miller's daughter who boasts she can spin straw into gold. Novik turns it round: her heroine, a moneylender's daughter, turns silver into gold, and the bargain is struck with a king of winter.