Sir Huldbrand was enchanted by Undine, and he invited her to enter the castle. As she stepped inside, the doors closed behind her, and she was transformed from a water nymph into a beautiful maiden, with skin as white as alabaster and hair as golden as the sun.
For centuries, these spirits were considered amoral. They could love, but not with the redemptive weight of a human soul. That changed in the 19th century, when German writer published his novella Undine (1811). beata undine