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    says that the Ljósálfar live in Álfheimr, while the Dökkálfar dwell underground and look—and particularly behave—quite unlike the Ljósálfar. High describes...
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  • the dökkálfar and the svartálfar were considered the same at the time of the writing of the Prose Edda is also unclear. Dökkálfar and Ljósálfar Drow...
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    in his Prose Edda of ljósálfar and dökkálfar ('light-elves and dark-elves'), the ljósálfar living in the heavens and the dökkálfar under the earth. The...
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  • Falmari, and Sindar. The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey notes that the Sundering allowed Tolkien to explain the existence of Norse mythology's Dökkálfar and Ljósálfar...
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  • Fjalar and Galar Gandalf Hreiðmarr Litr Mótsognir Norðri, Suðri, Austri and Vestri Ótr Regin Sindari Sons of Ivaldi Álfar Auðumbla Dökkálfar Draugr Fenrisulfr...
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  • lore featured light and dark elves (Ljósálfar and Dökkálfar). This may be roughly equivalent to later concepts such as the Seelie and Unseelie. In the mid-thirteenth...
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    imperative in not dismissing such tales as lies or delusions. Apsaras Dökkálfar and Ljósálfar Fairy godmother Fairy Investigation Society Fairy ring § Cultural...
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    several other works of literature and film including the 1949 Disney animated film The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad and the 1999 Tim Burton film Sleepy...
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    The Tooth Fairy is a fantasy figure of early childhood in Western and Western-influenced cultures. The folklore states that when children lose one of...
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    Svartálfaheimr. Another potential synonym is dökkálfar ('dark elves'); however, it is unclear whether svartálfar and dökkálfar were considered the same at the time...
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