dunielf
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Old English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dūn (“mountain”) + ielf (“elf”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dūnielf f
- nymph associated with the Castalian Spring at the foot of Mount Helicon, mountain elf
- manuscript c. 930s, Third Cleopatra Glossary, glossing Aldhelm's Carmen de Virginitate lines 23-25: Non rogo ruricolas versus et commata Musas / Nec peto Castalidas metrorum cantica nimphas / Quas dicunt Elicona iugum servare supernum ('I do not ask country-dwelling Muses for verses and parts of lines, / nor do I seek songs in metre from the Castalian nymphs / who, they say, guard Helicon's celestial brow')
- Castalidas nymphas: dunælfa; Elicona: swa hatte sio dun
- Castalidas nymphas: mountain-elves; Elicona: that is the name of the mountain
- c. 1000, Byrhtferth's Enchiridion:
- ic hate gewitan fram me ... þa Castalidas nymphas (þæt synt dunylfa), þa þe wunedon on Elicona þære dune
- I command to depart from me ... those Castalidas nymphas (that is, mountain-elves), those who dwelled on the mountain Helicon
- manuscript c. 930s, Third Cleopatra Glossary, glossing Aldhelm's Carmen de Virginitate lines 23-25: Non rogo ruricolas versus et commata Musas / Nec peto Castalidas metrorum cantica nimphas / Quas dicunt Elicona iugum servare supernum ('I do not ask country-dwelling Muses for verses and parts of lines, / nor do I seek songs in metre from the Castalian nymphs / who, they say, guard Helicon's celestial brow')
Declension
[edit]Declension of dunielf (strong ō-stem)
See also
[edit]- Old English: dūnielfen