elf-damsel

English

Noun

elf-damsel (plural elf-damsels)

  1. A young female elf.
    • 1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, volume II, London: Edward Lumley, page 142:
      The horn he held fast, and clapping spurs to his horse, rode away with all possible speed, followed by the Elf-damsel, until he reached Trigebrand's mill[.]
    • 1891, Edwin Sidney Hartland, The Science of Fairy Tales, London: Walter Scott, page 144:
      The elf-damsel gave chase until horse and man reached a running water, across which she could not follow them.
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