Elves in Norse Myth vs. Elves in Leifthasir
Elves in Norse Myth vs. Leifthasir: Álfar, Dark Elves, Seidr, and Viking Fantasy Worldbuilding Norse elves were not tiny fairies or Tolkien-style forest immortals. They were shining, powerful, ambiguous beings tied to gods, ancestors, fertility, death, and the land. In Leifthasir, those mythic roots become a living people shaped by Seidr, divine abandonment, war, exile, …