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Old English
Etymology
From dūn (“mountain”) + ielf (“elf”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dūnielf f
- nymph associated with the Castalian Spring at the foot of Mount Helicon, mountain elf
- manuscript c. 930s, Third Cleopatra Glossary, glossing Aldhelm's Carmen de Virginitate lines 23-25: Non rogo ruricolas versus et commata Musas / Nec peto Castalidas metrorum cantica nimphas / Quas dicunt Elicona iugum servare supernum ('I do not ask country-dwelling Muses for verses and parts of lines, / nor do I seek songs in metre from the Castalian nymphs / who, they say, guard Helicon's celestial brow')
Castalidas nymphas: dunælfa; Elicona: swa hatte sio dun- Castalidas nymphas: mountain-elves; Elicona: that is the name of the mountain
c. 1000, Byrhtferth's Enchiridion:ic hate gewitan fram me ... þa Castalidas nymphas (þæt synt dunylfa), þa þe wunedon on Elicona þære dune- I command to depart from me ... those Castalidas nymphas (that is, mountain-elves), those who dwelled on the mountain Helicon
Declension
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