The Princess of the elves

There is a common belief that elves and fairies are one and the same, but they may be the same or different beings. Despite the frequent similarity of the description, the traditional Celtic "elves" — the sidhe, for example, could be represented winged, unlike fairies, who in the Celtic sagas are not much different from ordinary people. In English, the word fairy was borrowed in the XII—XV centuries from the old French "faerie" (modern spelling — feerie, fee), which covered everything that somehow concerned the place of residence and activities of mythological "little people" (faie; later — fee). The source of the French term is considered to be the Latin fata (guardian spirit; hence — the Italian fata, Spanish hada). Fata, used in the feminine gender in the languages of the romance group, was originally a noun of the middle genus of the plural ("fates") and was derived from fatum ("predicted"; "prophetic»). In England, the original was the idea of "elves", "fairies" from the North French folklore of Normandy came here only after the conquest of William