Undine — Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué
Topics: класика
Beginning
UNDINE
By Friedrich de la Motte Fouque
With foreword by Charlotte M Yonge
Introduction
Four tales are, it is said, intended by the Author to be appropriate to the Four Seasons: the stern, grave “Sintram”, to winter; the tearful, smiling, fresh “Undine”, to Spring; the torrid deserts of the “Two Captains”, to summer; and the sunset gold of “Aslauga’s Knight”, to autumn. Of these two are before us.
The author of these tales, as well as of many more, was Friedrich, Baron de la Motte Fouque, one of the foremost of the minstrels or tale-tellers of the realm of spiritual chivalry--the realm whither Arthur’s knights departed when they “took the Sancgreal’s holy quest,”--whence Spenser’s Red Cross…
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