Elf King

The most apparent things I noticed that the in the Danish version and Herder's there were two lines per stanza and in Goethe's version there were four lines per stanza. Also the character change in Goethe's version was another noticeable thing from the poems. The other two kept the same characters and setting whereas Goethe made the man a boy and his father and they were going to the farm instead of the castle. He also changed it by maing the Elf King himself trying to lure the boy in instead of the King's daughter. The King didn't try to bribe the son in with things either instead he told the boy how his daughters would take care of him and when the boy refused he tried to use force to steal him from his father and when the boy still refused he was killed more quickly than in the other poems.