Undine is a water sprite of Germanic origins. Powerful and enigmatic, she has no soul but may marry a human and attain a soul that way. ( "Undine." Encyclopedia Mythica from Encyclopedia Mythica Online.).
Undine, or Ondine is present in modern fiction, art and music. Undine's romance is the subject in Friedrich de la Motte Fouque's Undine, published in 1811:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2825/2825-h/2825-h.htm
Undine is also the subject of French poet Aloysius Bertrand's poem cycle "Gaspard de la Nuit." Unfortunately no English translation exists online but Maurice Ravel adapted the poems to music. Below is the 1906 composition of the first movement of Ravel's "Gaspard" entitled "Ondine"l
Undine and Huldbrand - Henry Fuseli (1819) (the two main characters in La Motte Fouque's novella)
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