He is also associated with one of the most common types of tale in British folklore: the fairy bride. One night, lost in the Forest of Clun after hunting, he came across a circle of beautiful ladies dancing. After a struggle he managed to carry one of them away, who eventually agreed to be his wife on the condition that he never mention her origins. As the protagonists of these stories often do, he broke this promise in a fit of anger, and she instantly vanished.
The stories changed over time to resemble something like that of the "sleeping hero" tradition of King Arthur. According to an account from the 1860s, Edric and his wife and followers are still alive and imprisoned in the lead mines of Shropshire. Because of Edric's mistake of once trusting William the Conqueror they cannot die until England is as it was before the Norman invasion.
There is also a tradition in Shropshire of sightings of Edric above ground, an omen of war. He was apparently seen before the Crimean and Napoleonic Wars, and there are also sightings claimed in 1914 and 1939.