Elves in Anglo-Saxon England [electronic resource] : matters of belief, health, gender and identity / Alaric Hall.
Hall, Alaric.
2007
GR550 .H265 2007eb
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Title Elves in Anglo-Saxon England [electronic resource] : matters of belief, health, gender and identity / Alaric Hall.
Author Hall, Alaric.
ISBN 9781846155376 electronic book
9781843832942
1843832941
Publication Details Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, c2007.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 226 p.) : ill.
Call Number GR550 .H265 2007eb
Summary "Anglo-Saxon elves (Old English alfe) are one of the best attested non-Christian beliefs in early medieval Europe. Current interpretations of the evidence, however, derive directly from outdated nineteenth-and early twentieth-century scholarship." "Integrating linguistic and textual approaches into an anthropologically-inspired framework, this book reassesses the full range of evidence relating to elves. With a new degree of reliability, it traces continuities and changes in medieval non-Christian beliefs, from pre-conversion times to the eleventh century and beyond and uses comparative material from medieval Ireland and Scandinavia to argue for a dynamic relationship between beliefs and society."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Anglo-Saxon studies ; 8.
Available in Other Form Elves in Anglo-Saxon England.
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A medieval Scandinavian context
The earliest Anglo-Saxon evidence
Female elves and beautiful elves
Ælfe, illness and healing (1) : the 'elf-shot' conspiracy
Ælfe, illness and healing (2) : ælfsiden
Anglo-Saxon myth and gender
Believing in early medieval history
Appendix 1 : The linguistic history of elf
Appendix 2 : Two non-elves.

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