Elfwife

The Spanish Hidalgo loses his Elf-wife by pronouncing a sacred name, and the Metal Boat of the Prince Amrad sinks under the same bann.

Elidyr, the elf-wife, Keeps a small tavern In a moss-carpeted, Fern-curtained cavern.

An elf wife hung her washing out Upon a cobweb line (Including socks and handkerchiefs), The articles were nine.

Here the woman learned that the Elf-wife could not be delivered without the aid of a Christian woman, she being herself a Christian, but had been carried off by the Elf-man.

During his absence the elfwife took the opportunity of instructing her helper as to her conduct when he returned; and the first and chief point of her advice was to eat nothing that was offered her.