Editing Elf (section)

== Footnotes ==

=== Citations ===

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<ref name=alver&selberg>{{illm|Bente Gullveig Alver{{!}}Alver, Bente Gullveig|no|Bente Gullveig Alver}}; Selberg, Torunn (1987),'Folk Medicine as Part of a Larger Concept Complex', Arv, '''43''': 21–44.</ref>

<ref name=ashman_rowe>{{citation|last=Ashman Rowe |first=Elizabeth |title=''Sǫgubrot af fornkonungum'': : Mythologised History for Late Thirteenth-century Iceland |editor-last1=Arnold |editor-first1=Martin |editor-last2=Finlay |editor-first2=Alison |work=Making History: Essays on the Fornaldarsögur |publisher=Viking Society for Northern Research |year=2010 |pages=11–12 |url=http://www.vsnrweb-publications.org.uk/fornaldarsogur.pdf#page=9}}</ref>

<ref name=cooper><!--Cooper 2016, 97–99.-->{{cite thesis|type=PhD |last=Cooper |first=Victoria Elizabeth |title=Fantasies of the North: Medievalism and Identity in ''Skyrim'' |publisher=University of Leeds |year=2016 |url=http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16875/}}</ref>

<ref name=devreis>{{cite dictionary|last=De Vries |first=Jan |author-link=Jan de Vries (linguist) |title=Álfr |dictionary=Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch |edition=2nd |place=Leiden |publisher=Brill |year=1962}}</ref>

<ref name=erixon><!--Erixon (1961), p. 34.-->{{citation|last=Erixon |first=Sigurd |title=Some Examples of Popular Conceptions of Sprites and other Elementals in Sweden during the 19th Century |editor-last=Hultkrantz |editor-first=Åke |work=The Supernatural Owners of Nature: Nordic Symposion on the Religious Conceptions of Ruling Spirits (genii locii, genii speciei) and Allied Concepts |place=Stockholm |publisher=Almqvist & Wiksell |year=1961 |series=Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion, 1|page=34 (34–37)}}</ref>

<ref name=frog&roper>{{cite journal|last1=Frog |first1=Etunimetön |last2=Roper |first2=Jonathan |author-link=<!--Etunimetön Frog--> |title=Verses versus the Vanir: Response to Simek's "Vanir Obituary |journal=The Retrospective Methods Network Newsletter |date=May 2011 |pages=29–37 |url=http://www.helsinki.fi/folkloristiikka/English/RMN/RMNNewsletter_2_May_2011.pdf}}</ref>
 
<ref name=grattan&singer><!--John Henry Grafton Grattan-->Grattan, J. H. G.; [[Charles Singer|Singer, Charles]] (1952), ''Anglo-Saxon Magic and Medicine Illustrated Specially from the Semi-Pagan Text 'Lacnunga{{'}}'', Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, New Series, 3, London: Oxford University Press, frontispiece.</ref>

<ref name=hafstein>{{cite journal|last=Hafstein |first=Valdimar Tr. |s2cid=162055463 |author-link=Valdimar Tr. Hafstein |title=The Elves' Point of View ''Cultural Identity in Contemporary Icelandic Elf-Tradition'' |journal=Fabula |volume=41 |issue=1–2 |year=2000 |pages=87–104 (quoting p. 93) |doi=10.1515/fabl.2000.41.1-2.87 |url=http://www.helsinki.fi/folkloristiikka/English/RMN/RMN%20Newsletter%20DECEMBER%202010.pdf}}</ref>

<ref name=huld>{{cite journal|last=Huld |first=Martin E |author-link=<!--Martin E Huld--> |title=On the Heterclitic Declension of Germanic Divinities and the Status of the ''Vanir'' |journal=Studia Indogermanica Lodziensia |volume=2 |year=1998|pages=136–46 }}</ref>

<ref name=motz1973>{{cite journal|last=Motz |first=Lotte |title=Of Elves and Dwarves |journal=Arv: Tidskrift för Nordisk Folkminnesforskning |volume=29–30 |year=1973 |page=99 |url=http://heathen.vuya.net/sites/default/files/1973%20Of%20Elves%20and%20Dwarves%20(Motz).pdf }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

<ref name=olrik>{{cite encyclopedia|author-link=Axel Olrik |last=O[lrik] |first=A[xel] |date=1915–1930 |url=https://runeberg.org/salmonsen/2/7/0143.html |title=Elverfolk |encyclopedia=Salmonsens konversationsleksikon |editor-last=Blangstrup |editor-first=Chr. |display-editors=et al |edition=2nd |volume=VII |pages=133–136}}</ref>

<ref name=paul>{{cite book|last=Paul|first=Hermann|author-link=Hermann Paul |title=Grundriss der germanischen philologie unter mitwirkung|publisher=K. J. Trübner|year=1900|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_wXcVAAAAYAAJ |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_wXcVAAAAYAAJ/page/n288 268]}}</ref>

<ref name=purkiss>{{harvp|Purkiss|2000|pp=85–115}}; Cf. {{harvp|Henderson|Cowan|2001}}; {{harvp|Hall|2005}}.</ref>

<ref name=schulz>{{harvp|Hall|2007|p=98, fn. 10}} and {{harvp|Schulz|2000|pp=62–85}} on German evidence.</ref>

<ref name=simek2010>{{cite journal|last=Simek |first=Rudolf |author-link=Rudolf Simek |title=The Vanir: An Obituary |journal=The Retrospective Methods Network Newsletter |date=December 2010 |pages=10–19 |url=http://www.helsinki.fi/folkloristiikka/English/RMN/RMN%20Newsletter%20DECEMBER%202010.pdf}}</ref>

<ref name=simek2011>{{cite book|last=Simek |first=Rudolf |author-link=Rudolf Simek |editor-last=Anlezark |editor-first=Daniel |chapter=Elves and Exorcism: Runic and Other Lead Amulets in Medieval Popular Religion |title=Myths, Legends, and Heroes: Essays on Old Norse and Old English Literature in Honour of John McKinnell |place=Toronto |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=2011 |pages=25–52 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oGPl11DewwgC&pg=PA25 |access-date=2020-09-22 |isbn=978-0-8020-9947-1}}</ref>

<ref name=skjold>{{cite journal|last=Olrik |first=Axel |author-link=Axel Olrik |title=Skjoldungasaga in Arngrim Jonssons Udtog |journal=Aarbøger for nordisk oldkyndighed og historie |date=1894 |pages=130–131 |url=https://archive.org/details/1894a95aarbger00norduoft/page/n137/mode/2up}}</ref>

<ref name=tangherlini>{{cite journal|last1=Tangherlini|first1=Timothy R.|author-link=<!--Timothy R. Tangherlini--> |title=From Trolls to Turks: Continuity and Change in Danish Legend Tradition |journal=Scandinavian Studies |volume=67 |issue=1|pages= 32–62|date= 1995|jstor=40919729}}; cf. {{harvp|Ingwersen|1995|pp=78-79, 81}}.</ref>

<ref name=tolkien1969>Tolkien, J. R. R., (1969) [1947], "On Fairy-Stories", in ''Tree and Leaf'', Oxford, pp. 4–7 (3–83). (First publ. in ''Essays Presented to Charles Williams'', Oxford, 1947.)</ref>

<ref name=weston><!--Weston (1903), p. 144.-->{{citation|last=Weston |first=Jessie Laidlay |author-link=Jessie Weston (scholar) |title=The legends of the Wagner drama: studies in mythology and romance |publisher=C. Scribner's sons |year=1903 |page=144 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OdBNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA144}}</ref>

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