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=== Citations === {{Reflist|20em|refs= <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. 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