Dark Alfs
English
Etymology
A calque
of
Old Norse
dǫkkalfar
.
Proper noun
Dark
Alfs
(
Norse
mythology
)
The
Dǫkkálfar
.
1828
,
Thomas Keightley
,
The Fairy Mythology
, volume I, London
:
William Harrison Ainsworth, page
109
:
But the Döckalfar (
Dark Alfs
) dwell below under the ground, and are unlike them in appearance, and still more unlike in actions.
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