Meaning of elf-knight | Babel Free

Definitions

An elf in the guise of a medieval knight, typically armoured and riding a horse.

Examples

“Hurrah! hurrah! the elf-knights enter. Each with his grasshopper at a canter!”

“She heard an Elf knight his horn blowing, The first morning in May.”

“And the sword that had visited Earth from so far away smote like the falling of thunderbolts [...] and the runes in Alveric’s far-travelled sword exulted, and roared at the elf-knight; until in the dark of the wood, amongst branches severed from disenchanted trees, with a blow like that of a thunderbolt riving an oak-tree, Alveric slew him.”

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