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"The End" is a response to the Argentine epic Martín Fierro, which Borges had discussed in a long essay published earlier that year. [1] In the story, a man who presumably has had a crippling stroke winds up half seeing and half hearing a definitive fight between a "negro" guitarist who has been dwelling in the man's store and a mysterious stranger who turns out to be Martin Fierro, whom the ...
From Thomas the Rhymer, "Under the Eildon tree Thomas met the lady," illustrated by Katharine Cameron. Queen of Elphame [1] or "Elf-hame" (-hame stem only occurs in conjectural reconstructed orthography [2] [3]), in the folklore belief of Lowland Scotland and Northern England, designates the elfin queen of Faerie, mentioned in Scottish witch trials.
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A chart showing how the sound of the word elf has changed in the history of English [2] [3] The English word elf is from the Old English word most often attested as ælf (whose plural would have been * ælfe). Although this word took a variety of forms in different Old English dialects, these converged on the form elf during the Middle English ...
Elfin may refer to: . ELFIN, a CubeSat developed by University of California, Los Angeles; Elfin (steamboat), a steamboat that ran on Lake Washington from 1891 to 1900 Elfin of Alt Clut, ruler of Alt Clut, seventh century Scotland
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.
The framework for J. R. R. Tolkien's conception of his Elves, and many points of detail in his portrayal of them, is thought by Haukur Þorgeirsson to have come from the survey of folklore and early modern scholarship about elves (álfar) in Icelandic tradition in the introduction to Íslenzkar þjóðsögur og æfintýri ('Icelandic legends and fairy tales').
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