Old English Dictionary Entry

Dún-ælf

Part of speech: e;

Definitions

1 definitions

1 dún-ælf

f. A mountain fairy :-- Þá castalidas nymphas, ꝥ synt dúnylfa þá þe wunedon on Elicona þǽre dúne, Angl. viii. 325, 27. Dúnælfa castalidas nymphas, Wrt. Voc. ii. 88, 84; 19, 22. Dúnelfa, 129, 33. dun-ælf

Similar Words

-dállic
-deáded
-deáw
-défedlic, -défness
-démedness

Runic Inscription

ᛞᚢᚾ-ᚫᛚᚠ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

Abbreviations Used

Works & Authors

Voc.: Vocabulary
Wrt.: Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies

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