erl-king

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  1. In German and Scandinavian poetical mythology, a personified natural power which devises and works mischief, especially to children. The hero of the present piece is the Erl or Oak King, a fiend who is supposed to dwell in the recesses of the forest, and thence to issue forth upon the benighted traveller to lure him to his destruction. Scott, Erl King, Pref.

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  1. English accommodation of German erlkönig, erlen-könig, accommodation of Danish elle-konge, elver-konge, literally king of the elves, elle-, elver-, being the plural (only in comp.; = Swedish elfvor, plural) of alf, plural otherwise alfer, = English elf; cf. Danish alfe-konge, elf-king.
 

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