What is the difference between dwarves and elf?
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* 1842 , George Webbe Dasent (trans.), The Prose Or Younger Edda Commonly Ascribed to Snorri Sturluson , page
* 1854 , Barclay Pennock (trans.), Rudolph Keyser, The Religion of the Northmen , page
* 2001 , Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Well of Darkness'', HarperCollins''Publishers , page 139
(Norse mythology) A luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of (Elfland). Compare angel, nymph, fairy.
* Shakespeare
Any from a race of mythical, supernatural beings resembling but seen as distinct from human beings. Usually skilled in magic or spellcrafting; sometimes depicted as clashing with dwarves, especially in modern fantasy literature.
(fantasy) Any of the magical, typically forest-guarding races bearing some similarities to the Norse (through Tolkien's Eldar)
A very diminutive person; a dwarf.
As nouns the difference between dwarves and elf
is that dwarves is (dwarf) while elf is (norse mythology) a luminous spirit presiding over nature and fertility and dwelling in the world of (elfland) compare angel, nymph, fairy.dwarves
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- Then said Þriði: They took also his skull and made thereof heaven and set it up over the earth with four sides, and under each corner they set dwarves : they hight thus Austri, Vestri, Norþri, Suþri.
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- The belief in Dwarves as inhabitants of the interior of the earth and especially of large isolated rocks, was likewise a direct offshoot of the Asa-Mythology.
- When the human magi arrived, Dunner was the dwarf responsible for arbitrating between them and the dwarves as to location and the hundreds of other minor quibbles that seemed likely to turn into major battles, owing to simple misunderstandings of each other's ways.
elf
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(elves) (wikipedia elf)- Every elf , and fairy sprite, / Hop as light as bird from brier.