muntælfen

Old English

Etymology

munt +‎ ælfen

Noun

muntælfen (plural)

  1. oreades

See also
  • dunelfen (“castalides”)
  • feldelfen (“moides”)
  • sæelfen (“naiades”)
  • wuduelfen (“dryades”)
  • wylde elfen (“hamadryades”)

References
  1. Thomas Wright, edited by Richard Paul Wülcker, Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies. Volume I: Vocabularies, 2nd ed., 1884, p. 189: "Oreades, muntælfen."
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