Crossword-Solution: ALFS 4 letters, 34 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Together they went up the stairs, the heavy carpets with their drugget covers silencing every step, the gilded mirrors throwing their reflections backwards and forwards until the stairs seemed peopled with hosts of Emmys and Alfs.

Suffice it to observe that it goes back to the most remote ages, and that two essential parts of it are the Alfar (_Alfs_ or _Elves_) and the Duergar (_Dwarfs_), two classes of beings whose names continue to the present day in all the languages of the nations descended from the Gotho-German race.

The former were, according to the ideas of those times, of a good and elevated nature, and of a friendly disposition toward men, whence they also received the name of White or Light Alfs or Spirits.

These Dæmons, particularly the underground ones, were called Svartálfar, that is Black Spirits, and inasmuch as they did mischief, Trolls." This very nearly coincides with what is to be found in the Edda, except that there would appear to be some foundation for a distinction between the Dwarfs and the Dark Alfs.[98] THE ALFAR.

But the Döckálfar (_Dark Alfs_) dwell below under ground, and are unlike them in appearance, and still more unlike in actions.