Beata Undine //top\\ Jun 2026

Beata Undine's story has been interpreted in various ways:

She prayed for weight .

Unlike the others of her kind—those fluid, laughing creatures who pulled crowns from drowned men and braided eelgrass into forgetfulness—Beata Undine walked on two feet each evening to the chapel ruin at the water’s edge. No door remained. No roof. Only a half-arch framing the stars. There she knelt on the cold stone where moss had erased the names of saints. beata undine