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English
Proper noun
Alfar (singular alf)
- (Norse mythology) The elves as a group.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 135:The Alfar still live in the memory and traditions of the peasantry of Scandinavia.
1964, J. A. Macculloch, The Mythology of All Races, New York: Cooper Square Publishers, page 220:"Ill is it with the Æsir, ill is it with the Alfar."
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