elf-king

Noun

elf king (plural elf kings)

1. A male monarch of elves.
   • There is also a tune called the Elf-king's tune, which several of the good fiddlers know right well, but never venture to play, for as soon as it begins, both old and young, and even inanimate objects, are impelled to dance, and the player cannot stop unless he can play the air backwards, or that...1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 137