Meanings
nounelf-damsel (plural elf-damsels)
plural elf-damsels
- A young female elf.
The elf-damsel gave chase until horse and man reached a running water, across which she could not follow them.
1891, Edwin Sidney Hartland, The Science of Fairy Tales, London: Walter Scott, page 1441 more example
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[.]
1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, volume II, London: Edward Lumley, page 142
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