Svartálfar

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In

dwarfs and potentially also the dökkálfar ("dark elves"). As dwarfs, the home of the svartálfar could possibly be another description for Niðavellir
("dark fields").

Attestations

The svartálfar are almost only attested in the

Svartálfaheimr ("world of black-elves") appears in the Prose Edda twice,

gods to craft the fetter Gleipnir to bind the wolf Fenrir.[9] And in Skáldskaparmál, 39, the "world of black-elves" is where Loki encounters the dwarf Andvari.[10]

Theories and interpretations

Scholars have commented that, as both attestations mentioning the beings and location appear to refer to dwarfs, svartálfr and dwarf may simply be synonyms for the same concept.[11] Scholar John Lindow comments that whether the dökkálfar and the svartálfar were considered the same at the time of the writing of the Prose Edda is also unclear.[12]

See also

Notes

  1. Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne; ou, Histoire, par ordre alphabétique
    " vol. 53. p. 143
  2. ^ Crawford, Alexander (1891). "The Creed of Japhet". p. 19. W. Clowes and Sons, Limited.
  3. ^ a b Faulkes (1995), pp. 28, 100
  4. ^ Hall, Alaric (2007). Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity, Anglo-Saxon Studies, 8. Woodbridge: Boydell, p. 24.
  5. ^ Faulkes (1995), p. 96
  6. Grimnismál
    43.1"
  7. ^ Finnur Jónsson (1911) ed. Edda, index under Svartálfaheimr (p.365) which cross-references to pp. 51, 175.
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  9. ^ Faulkes (1995), p. 28
  10. ^ Faulkes (1995), p. 100
  11. ^ Lindow (2001), p. 110; Orchard (1997), p. 20 and Simek (2007), p. 305.
  12. ^ Lindow (2001), p. 110.

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