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Page 444
... light - coloured , white , good spirit , so that , when álfar and dvergar are contrasted , the one signifies the white spirits , the other the black . This exactly agrees with the great beauty and brightness of âlfar . But the two ...
... light - coloured , white , good spirit , so that , when álfar and dvergar are contrasted , the one signifies the white spirits , the other the black . This exactly agrees with the great beauty and brightness of âlfar . But the two ...
Page 445
... light and black elves , the same Dualism that other mythologies set up between spirits good and bad , friendly and hostile , heavenly and hellish , between angels of light and of darkness . But ought we not rather to assume three kinds ...
... light and black elves , the same Dualism that other mythologies set up between spirits good and bad , friendly and hostile , heavenly and hellish , between angels of light and of darkness . But ought we not rather to assume three kinds ...
Page 446
... light ones have in those of heaven . Of no other elves has the Edda so much to tell as of the black , 1 ' Heinenkleed is not conn . with Friend Hein , but means a hünenkleed ( ch . XVIII . ) ; conf . also the hünnerskes , and perhaps ...
... light ones have in those of heaven . Of no other elves has the Edda so much to tell as of the black , 1 ' Heinenkleed is not conn . with Friend Hein , but means a hünenkleed ( ch . XVIII . ) ; conf . also the hünnerskes , and perhaps ...
Page 447
... light ones , have some devil - like qualities , e.g. their loving to 1 In Lausitz and E. Thuringia_querx , in Thüringerwald querlich . Jac . von Königshofen , p . 89 , has querch . In Lower Saxony sometimes twârm , for twarg . 2 In ...
... light ones , have some devil - like qualities , e.g. their loving to 1 In Lausitz and E. Thuringia_querx , in Thüringerwald querlich . Jac . von Königshofen , p . 89 , has querch . In Lower Saxony sometimes twârm , for twarg . 2 In ...
Page 449
... light . The leading features of elvish nature seem to be the follow- ing : - " Man's body holds a medium between those of the giant and the elf ; an elf comes as much short of human size as a giant towers above it . All elves are ...
... light . The leading features of elvish nature seem to be the follow- ing : - " Man's body holds a medium between those of the giant and the elf ; an elf comes as much short of human size as a giant towers above it . All elves are ...
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