[1] álfar ‘elves’: Mythical beings akin to the Æsir who receive cult worship (álfablót ‘sacrifice to the elves’) (Kuhn 1973; Shippey 2005b). Younger sources, as here in Bós, emphasise the demonic aspects of elves (Grimm 1875-8, 2, 381-2; Turville-Petre 1964, 232; Shippey 2005b, 166-8).
References
- Bibliography
- Turville-Petre, Gabriel. 1964. Myth and Religion of the North. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
- Kuhn, Hans (1899). 1973. ‘Alben’. In RGA, 1, 130-2.
- Grimm, Jakob [Jacob]. 1875-8. Deutsche Mythologie. 3 vols. 4th edn by Elard Hugo Meyer. Berlin: Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung.
- Shippey, Tom. 2005b. ‘Alias Oves Habeo: The Elves as a Category Problem’. In Shippey 2005a, 157-87.
- Internal references
- 2017, ‘ Anonymous, Bósa saga’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 25. <https://skaldic.org/m.php?p=text&i=46> (accessed 5 May 2024)