The Erl-King

METADATA

Metadata

The Erl-King

Poet(s)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Unsigned

Credits

Translator

Ford, Jane H. C.

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 13:640, 224, 1 April 1876.

First line

Wha’s ridin’ sae fast i’ the gloamin’s licht?

Authorship

Unsigned

Original language

German

Document status

Generated: The file was automatically generated from metadata in the project metadata database.

Notes and attribution research

Translator attribution: Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that Miss Ford was paid 10s 6d for the poem, and gives no address (NLS Dep 341/368). This poem is a Scots translation of Goethe’s The Erl-King. (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7208

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

The Erl-King