Svartalfaheim
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Old Norse
Etymology
svartalfar (“black elves”) + heim (“home”)
Proper noun
Svartalfaheim ?
- (Norse mythology) the underground home and realm of the Svartálfar
- c. 1220, Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning:
- "Þá sendi Alföðr þann, er Skírnir er nefndr, sendimaðr Freys, ofan í Svartálfaheim til dverga nǫkkurra ok lét gera fjǫtur þann, er Gleipnir heitir."
(Wikisource translation: "So Alfather sent the youth, who is called Skirner, and is Frey's messenger, to some dwarfs in Svartalfheim, and had them make the fetter which is called Gleipner.")- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
See also
Further reading
- Wikisource:Prose Edda/Gylfaginning (The Fooling Of Gylfe) by Sturluson, Snorri, 13th century Edda, in English. Accessed Apr. 16, 2007
- Gylfaginning in Old Norse Accessed Apr. 16, 2007.
- Mythology of All Races volume 2 : Eddic (1930, Marshall Jones Company), pages 220-221