Elves appear across Germanic and Scandinavian literature. The name seems to derive from the old Norse word “alfr” and the old Germanic word “albi.” Both seem to carry the meaning “white.” In the early ...

With sources ranging from the 13th-century Poetic and Prose Eddas to the 20th-century works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Lecouteux's encyclopedia covers Norse and Germanic gods, including crowd-pleasers Odin, ...