Ondine Bio

Undine – (from Lat. Unda – Wave) – mythical creatures, created a fantasy medieval alchemists and cabbalist borrowed their basic features, part of the popular Germanic notions of nymphs and mermaids, a part of the Greek myths about the mermaid, the sirens and tritons. The works of these scholars U. played a role of natural spirits that lived in water and controlling water disasters in all its forms, just as the salamanders were spirits of fire, ruled the underground world of gnomes and elves – air. Being fit in folk beliefs, W., if you were female gender, differed handsome appearance, had gorgeous hair (sometimes greenish), which they combed, leaving the shore, or rocking on the sea waves. Sometimes the popular fantasy ascribed to them a fish's tail, which ended with the body instead of legs. Charming his beauty and singing travelers, U. inspire them in the underwater depths, which gave her love, and where, and age were both moments. In the Scandinavian personal conviction, got one day to the U., is not back to the ground, exhausted by their caresses. Occasionally W. intermarried with people on the ground, as received at the same time the immortal human soul, especially if they have babies. This latter feature is at the heart of medieval novels of Melusine, about knights and Temringere Shtauffenbergere. Featured writers, especially poets, the romantic school, willingly used the legends of the U. The most famous tale de Lamotte-Fook "Ondine" (1813), translated into Russian, poems, VA Zhukovsky (1836), a poem by Heine: "Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten …", Andersen fairy tale "The Little Mermaid", a poem by T. Gautier "L'ondine et le recheur. In the story the story of Fouquet wrote an opera Hoffmann (romance writer) and Lorttsingom; write an opera on this subject and also Russian composers – Tchaikovsky, and Lviv (the latter destroyed his work).