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Erl-King

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Erl-King

In Germanic folklore, the king of the elves. First appearing in late 18th-century German literature, he is depicted as a bearded giant with a golden crown, who inhabited the Black Forest and lured children to their deaths. The Romantic writer J W Goethe's poem Erlkönig was translated into English by Walter Scott and set to music by Franz Schubert in 1816.

The Erl-King was established as an alder wraith after German poet Johann von Herder had erroneously translated the Danish ellerkonge ‘king of the elves’ as erlkönig ‘alder-king’ in ‘The Elf King's Daughter’, from his collection of folksongs Stimmen der Völker in Liedern (1778).



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As if parodying the Hollywood thriller commonplace of the intuitive detective experiencing lightning-bolt revelations, he excitedly babbles, "He's here, he's right here," convinced that his unknown enemy--a child-stealing Erl-King of his own making--is watching from nearby.
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