elf-knight

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elf-knight

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Arts, Fantasy, Folklore, History, Human sciences, Literature, Media, Publishing, Sciences An elf in the guise of a medieval knight, typically armoured and riding a horse.

Hurrah! hurrah! the elf-knights enter. Each with his grasshopper at a canter!1827, George Darley, Sylvia, Or, The May Queen: A Lyrical Drama, London: John Taylor, page 137:
She heard an Elf knight his horn blowing, The first morning in May.1827, William Motherwell, Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern, with an Historical Introduction and Notes, Glasgow: John Wylie, page lx:

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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.1924, Lord Dunsany, chapter III, in The King of Elfland's Daughter, New York: G.P. Puttnam's Sons, page 30:

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