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Agnes

R. B.

First published November 1866
Type Poem

Notes

Headed by the note "After [Adam] Oehlenschläger", this is a retelling of a Danish ballad in which a woman marries a merman and lives with him for seven years on the bottom of a lake, which ends disastrously when she returns to land to visit her family.

Publications (1)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1866 The Argosy (UK), November 1866 MAGAZINE