This story inspired Hans Christian Andersen to write ‘The Little Mermaid’! A cult story about love and betrayal, written by a classic of foreign literature, Friedrich de la Motte Fouquet. More than 7 operas have been written based on history, and more than 10 feature films have been shot. This story lives on in thousands of stories about mermaids, sea maidens and water spirits who, by unfortunate chance, fall in love with members of the human race.