Author: Friedrich de La Motte-Fouque / Year: 1777 - 1843 / Genre: Fantasy The fisherman and his wife, both past middle age, were common peasants, but the girl with them, whom at first he thought was their daughter of entirely different class. She was young, beautiful and refined, and the Knight lost his heart to her at once. The peasants told him that they knew nothing about the girl except that they believed that she had been shipwrecked and seemingly half drowned she had arrived at their humble home.
