Undine (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Friedrich de laMotte Fouqué
- First Published: 1811
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Symbolism
- Time of Work: The Middle Ages
- Setting: Austria
- Genres: Long fiction, Symbolist literature
- Subjects: Changelings or cuckoos, Folkloric or magical people, Magic or magicians, Marriage, Mistaken or secret identity, Other worlds, Revenge, Adoption or adopted children, Gods or goddesses, Forests or forestry, Castles, Austria or Austrians, Germany or German people, Middle Ages, Fishing or fishermen, Knights or knighthood, Metamorphosis or transmogrification, Fairies
- Locales: Austria
Characters Discussed
Undine (EWN-dee-nuh), a water spirit, daughter of a Mediterranean water prince and foster daughter of a poor fisherman and his wife. Fifteen years earlier, she appeared, as a child of three or four, at the fisherman’s cottage shortly after the disappearance of his young daughter. She is now a beautiful young woman but rebellious, mischievous, and wildly capricious. When Huldbrand mentions Bertalda in telling his adventures, Undine bites him out of jealousy. After she and Huldbrand are married and the priest tells her to attune her soul to her husband’s,...
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