3 Female Elves and Beautiful Elves

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures viii
4. Foreword ix
5. Abbreviations xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 A Medieval Scandinavian Context 21
8. 2 The Earliest Anglo-Saxon Evidence 54
9. 3 Female Elves and Beautiful Elves 75
10. 4 Ælfe, Illness and Healing (1): The ‘Elf-Shot’ Conspiracy 96
11. 5 Ælfe, Illness and Healing (2): Ælfsīden 119
12. 6 Anglo-Saxon Myth and Gender 157
13. 7 Believing in Early-Medieval History 167
14. Appendix 1: The Linguistic History of Elf 176
15. Appendix 2: Two Non-Elves 182
16. Works Cited 185
17. Index 221