Crossword-Solution: ERLKING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Erlking | n. | A personification, in German and Scandinavian mythology, of a spirit natural power supposed to work mischief and ruin, esp. to children. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ERLKING | anagram | KLINGER, KRINGLE |
We have 7 clues for the answer “ERLKING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DANISH legend | 1 answer |
| Figure in Goethe ballad. | 1 answer |
| Malicious spirit in German mythology who carries children away to death | 1 answer |
| Mischievous elf of German folklore. | 1 answer |
| Mischievous menace to moppets in Munich | 1 answer |
| Subject of Goethe ballad. | 1 answer |
| Subject of a Goethe ballad. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ERLKING (5)
Ernst often came to hear me play her late husband's music, and as a parting gift presented me with his beautiful 'Tourte' bow, and an autographed copy of the first edition of Ernst's transcription for solo violin of Schubert's 'Erlking.' It is so incredibly difficult to play with proper balance of melody and accompaniment--I never heard any one but Kubelik play it--that it is almost impossible.
The declamation at the end of Schubert's "Erlking" would have been absolutely false if the penultimate note had ascended to the tonic instead of descending a fifth.
But Schubert, too, could write such thrilling five-minute dramas as the "Erlking" and the "Doppelgänger," without being able to compose a successful opera.
Frightened, the child looks to one side, and asks, in disconnected phrases, whether his father does not see the Erlking, the Erlking with his crown and train.
But in the boy's brain the Erlking has already raised his enticing whisper.[3] The still, small voice, as though coming from another world, promises the child golden raiment, flowers, and games.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1955–1981).