<span class="searchmatch">light</span> <span class="searchmatch">elves</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">light</span> elf...
has an article on: <span class="searchmatch">light</span> elf Wikipedia Back-formation from <span class="searchmatch">light</span> <span class="searchmatch">elves</span>, a calque of Old Norse ljósalfar. <span class="searchmatch">light</span> elf (plural <span class="searchmatch">light</span> <span class="searchmatch">elves</span>) (Norse mythology)...
ljós (“<span class="searchmatch">light</span>”) + alfar (“<span class="searchmatch">elves</span>”) ljósalfar m pl (Norse mythology) the "<span class="searchmatch">light</span> <span class="searchmatch">elves</span>", the <span class="searchmatch">elves</span> who dwell in the heavens c. 1220, Sturluson, Snorri. Gylfaginning...
called <span class="searchmatch">light</span>-<span class="searchmatch">elves</span>; but the dark-<span class="searchmatch">elves</span> dwell down in the earth, and they are unlike the <span class="searchmatch">light</span>-<span class="searchmatch">elves</span> in appearance, but much more so in deeds. The <span class="searchmatch">light</span>-elves...
whether either or each term is a kenning for "dwarves" is also unclear. alfar (“<span class="searchmatch">elves</span>”) Svartalfaheim dǫkkalfar (“dark <span class="searchmatch">elves</span>”) ljósalfar (“<span class="searchmatch">light</span> <span class="searchmatch">elves</span>”)...
Proto-Indo-European *albʰós. alfr m elf dǫkkalfar (“dark <span class="searchmatch">elves</span>”) ljósalfar (“<span class="searchmatch">light</span> <span class="searchmatch">elves</span>”) svartalfar (“black <span class="searchmatch">elves</span>”) Gandalfr (name of a dwarf) Icelandic: álfur...
Swedish province of Bohuslän. (Norse mythology) home of the Ljósálfar (<span class="searchmatch">Light</span> <span class="searchmatch">Elves</span>) and one of the nine realms, also called Ljosalfheim. (The Nine Realms):...
Borrowed from Old Norse Álfheimr. Alfheim The home of the Ljósálfar (<span class="searchmatch">light</span> <span class="searchmatch">elves</span>, álfar, divine beings), located up in the sky. Elfland. Possibly heaven...
Old Norse the term for dark <span class="searchmatch">elves</span> was a kenning for "dwarves". a Dǫkkálfar a member of a race of <span class="searchmatch">elves</span> that is evil drow <span class="searchmatch">light</span> elf Bulfinch, Thomas (1834;...
whence they also received the name of White or <span class="searchmatch">Light</span> Alfs or Spirits. 2023, Kveldulf Gundarsson, <span class="searchmatch">Elves</span>, Wights & Trolls, The Three Little Sisters, page...