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Undine
Undine (from Latin unda "wave") may refer to several things.
- According to a theory advanced by Paracelsus, an Undine is a water nymph or water spirit, the elemental of water.
- Undine (1811) is a novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué.
- Undine (1816) is an opera by E.T.A. Hoffmann based on Fouqué's story.
- Undine (1845) is an opera by Albert Lortzing, also based on Fouqué's tale.
- Undine leaves is a poem by Ingeborg Bachmann.
- Undine is an autobiographical book by Olive Schreiner published posthumously in 1928. [1]
- In Brian Kiedrowski's scenarios for the computer game Blades of Exile, the Undine are a subterrainian race of aquatic magi.
- 92 Undina is an asteroid.
- Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Undine, one was an American Civil War river gunboat.
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