Undine - Definition and Overview

Undine (from Latin unda "wave") may refer to several things.

• According to a theory advanced by Paracelsus, an Undine is a water nymph or water spirit, the elemental of water.
• Undine (1811) is a novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué.
• Undine (1816) is an opera by E.T.A. Hoffmann based on Fouqué's story.
• Undine (1845) is an opera by Albert Lortzing, also based on Fouqué's tale.
• Undine leaves is a poem by Ingeborg Bachmann.
• Undine is an autobiographical book by Olive Schreiner published posthumously in 1928. [1] (http://africanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa021402c.htm)
• In Brian Kiedrowski's scenarios for the computer game Blades of Exile, the Undine are a subterrainian race of aquatic magi.
• 92 Undina is an asteroid.
• Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Undine, one was an American Civil War river gunboat.

External links

• Water spirit legends (http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/water.html)
• Fouqué's Undine online (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2825)
• Schreiner's Undine online (http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/schreiner/undine.html)