# فِي ٱللُّغَةِ ٱلْإِنْجْلِيزِيَّةِ:
### Etymology

Derives from the Old Norse, Dökkálfar.

### اسم

dark elves
* (Old Norse mythology) A race of elves who live underground, and often but not always corollated with the dwarves.
* (Teutonic mythology) male ancestral spirits who may protect the people. They are generally light-avoiding, though not necessarily subterranean.
* (Fiction) A race of elves.
* (paganism) A dwarf, ancestor, or underground dwelling nature spirit in Heathenry.

#### Translations

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* Old Norse: Dökkálfar

### See also

* light elves
* drow

### References

* Bulfinch, Thomas (1834). Bulfinch's Mythology. New York: Harper & Row, 1970, p. 348. ISBN 0-690-57260-3.
* Marshall Jones Company (1930). Mythology of All Races Series, Volume 2 Eddic, Great Britain: Marshall Jones Company, 1930, pp. 220-221.