The Elf Maiden

Andrew Lang (1844 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang was also a prolific author of works both fiction and non-; he wrote his own fairy tales such as Prince Prigio (1889) and Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia (1893), and wrote numerous historical texts. Andrew Lang was great friends with Robert Louis Stevenson and H. Rider Haggard, with whom he wrote The World's Desire (1890). Preferring romance over realism, he admired their works as well as those of Alexandre Dumas Père, Henry Fielding, William Makepeace Thackeray, fellow Scot Robert Burns and many others. Story by Andrew Lang the Elf Maiden tells the reader about maiden and a young man who forced to stay on the island without any provisions to survive. To our surprise this man could overcome himself and with the honor and courage lived more than someone could believe. One day he met a strange maiden on this lonely island willing to marry him. So, they married but he never really found who she was and came from as well.

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