Talk:Mab/@comment-5822565-20121104143520/@comment-79.64.15.144-20150113214039

Got it in one. In terms of literature she could be the faerie queene in spenser's poem, featuring King Arthur, also likely to be medb from Irish lore or mabily (Chaucer). Faeries were not thought of as sparkly pretty women at the time of the Arthurian legend, but rather mischievous spirits of nature, like Shakespeare's puck from a midsummer nights dream. So she's not meant to be 'pretty', more earthy and ethereal.