Dark Alfs

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

A calque of Old Norse dǫkkalfar.

Proper noun[edit]

Dark Alfs

  1. (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.