“Lepa Vida” (Fair Vida) is one of the most common motifs in Slovenian literature. The motif is from a folk song with many variants which in the course of time, and with each new author's view, assumed further layers. So far there have been 43 literary variations on the Fair Vida motif recorded since 1932, as well as many instances of arrangements for children and youth.In this paper I present the main characteristics of the motif in folk literature, in France Prešeren (“Od Lepe Vide”; “Of the Fair Vida”), and in Andrej Rozman Roza Lepa Vida v akciji (Fair Vida in Action), that is, the source/original, the canonical, and the subversive. I initially present the findings about the origins of the motif, the sociological-historical background ag...