Elves in Anglo-Saxon England [electronic resource] : matters of belief, health, gender and identity / Alaric Hall.

9781846155376 electronic book
9781843832942
1843832941

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, c2007.

English

1 online resource (xi, 226 p.) : ill.

GR550 .H265 2007eb

"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 Current interpretations of the evidence, however, derive directly from outdated nineteenth-and early twentieth-century scholarship."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.

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Anglo-Saxon studies ; 8.

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