With hungry rage, fed never, ever feeding;
Ten thousand dishes severed every day,
Yet in ten thousand thousand dishes needing.
In vain his daughter hundred shapes assumed;
A whole camp's meat he in his gorge inhumed;
And all consumed, his hunger yet was unconsumed.
Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island (1633).
Erland, father of Norna "of the Fitful Head."—Sir W. Scott, The Pirate (time, William III.).
Erl-King, a spirit of mischief, which haunts the Black Forest of Thuringia.
Goethe has a ballad called the Erl-könig, and Herder has translated the Danish ballad of Sir Olaf and the Erl-King's Daughter.