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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
elf-damsel en · NOUN
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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 144: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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