dark elves

إنجليزية

Etymology

Derives from the Old Norse, Dökkálfar.

اسم

dark elves

1. (Old Norse mythology) A race of elves who live underground, and often but not always corollated with the dwarves.
2. (Teutonic mythology) male ancestral spirits who may protect the people. They are generally light-avoiding, though not necessarily subterranean.
3. (Fiction) A race of elves.
4. (paganism) A dwarf, ancestor, or underground dwelling nature spirit in Heathenry.

Translations

• Old Norse: Dökkálfar

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See also

• light elves
• drow

References

• Bulfinch, Thomas (1834). Bulfinch's Mythology. New York: Harper & Row, 1970, p. 348. ISBN 0-690-57260-3.
• Marshall Jones Company (1930). Mythology of All Races Series, Volume 2 Eddic, Great Britain: Marshall Jones Company, 1930, pp. 220-221.