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ERLKONIG , or ERL-See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
KING, a mythical See also:character in See also:modern See also:German literature, represented as a gigantic bearded See also:man with a See also:golden See also:crown and trailing garments, who carries See also:children away to that undiscovered See also:country where he himself abides. There is no such personage in See also:ancient German See also:mythology, and the name is linguistically nothing more than the perpetuation of a blunder. It first appeared in See also:Herder's Stimmen der Volker (1778), where it is used in the See also:translation of the Danish See also:song of the See also:Elf-King's Daughter as See also:equivalent to the Danish ellerkonge, or ellekonge, that is, elverkonge, the king of the elves; and the true German word would have been Elbkonig or Elbenkonig, afterwards used under the modified See also:form of Elfenkonig by See also:Wieland in his See also:Oberon (1780). Herder was probably misled by the fact that the Danish word elle signifies not only elf, but also See also:alder See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree (Ger. See also:Erle). His See also:mistake at any See also:rate has been perpetuated by both See also:English and See also:French translators, who speak of a " king of the alders;' " un roi See also:des aunes," and find an explanation of the myth in the tree-See also:worship of See also:early times, or in the vapoury emanations that hang like weird phantoms See also:round the alder trees at See also:night. The See also:legend was adopted by See also:Goethe as the subject of one of his finest See also:ballads, rendered See also:familiar to English readers by the See also:translations of See also:Lewis and See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott; and since then it has been treated as a musical theme by Reichardt and See also:Schubert.
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