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f. An elf :-- Ðanon untydras ealle onwócon eotenas and ylfe thence sprang all monstrous things, giants and elves, Beo. Th. 224; B. 112. Gif hit wǽre ésa gescot oððe hit wǽre ylfa gescot oððe hit wǽre hægtessan gescot if it were Æsir's shot, or elves' shot, or witches' shot, Lchdm. iii. 54, 10. [Cf. Scot. elf-shot; elf-arrow, Halliw. Dict; Grmm. D. M. 429 : Prompt. Parv. elfe lamia, 138, see note : M. H. Ger. elbe; f. see Grmm. D. M. 411.] v- ælf, -elfen. ilf