Undine

Undine (from Latin unda "wave") is

• according to a theory advanced by Paracelsus, a water nymph or water spirit;

• a novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1811) -- see Undine (novella);

• an opera by E.T.A. Hoffmann (1816) based on Fouqué's story;

• another opera by Albert Lortzing (1845) also based on Fouqué's tale;

• an autobiographical book by Olive Schreiner (published posthumously in 1928) [1] -- see Undine (Schreiner); and

• a U.S. Civil War river gunboat -- see USS Undine.

• Water spirit legends
• Fouqué's Undine online
• Schreiner's Undine online