Undine

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.
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.
The USS Undine was a U.S. Civil War river gunboat.


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