A Greek city near Olympia

A myth-like, enigmatic boy character in some of Trakl's poems. The model for the name doesn't originate from the Greek Peloponnesian peninsular, but in the historical fall of Swedish miner Elis Froebom in the 17th century, which E. T. A. Hoffmann (in the novel, “The Miners of Falun”, 1818) and Hugo von Hofmannsthal (in the verse drama fragment, “The Miners of Falun”, 1906) treated in literature. Elis Froebom met with an accident in the mine on the day of his wedding, and his body was discovered decades later perfectly preserved his youth while his bride had become an old woman. [ To the Boy Elis; Elis; Occident; Bequest: Elis versions 1 and 2; Occident versions 2 and 3; A cross towers Elis

Elis (formerly known as Erben Der Schöpfung) is a Gothic-doom band from Liechtenstein, formed in 2000.