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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to Sigv Austv 5I

[7] alfablót ‘a sacrifice to the elves’: This is the only reference to this practice in Old Norse poetry, and its nature and that of the minor mythological beings called álfar is elusive (see Turville-Petre 1964, 230-2, Gunnell 2006 and Hall 2007 for elves in Old English and Old Norse tradition).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Turville-Petre, Gabriel. 1964. Myth and Religion of the North. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
  3. Gunnell, Terry. 2006. ‘How Elvish Were the Álfar?’. In McKinnell et al. 2006, 321-8.
  4. Hall, Alaric. 2007. Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity. Woodbridge: Boydell.

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