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Two dwarfs as depicted in a 19th-century edition of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá (1895) by Lorenz Frølich. A dwarf (pl. dwarfs or dwarves) is a type of supernatural being in Germanic folklore.
Alberich seduces the king's mother (a scene from Ortnit, 1480 woodcut) Alberich (with whip) drives on the Nibelung dwarfs, who collect gold and other treasures. (Arthur Rackham, 1910) Siegfried wrestles with Alberich (Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, 1843) In German heroic legend, Alberich (German: [ˈalbəʁɪç]) is a dwarf.
The dwarf Alberich (with whip) drives on the Nibelung dwarfs, who collect gold and other treasures. (Arthur Rackham, 1910)The term Nibelung or Niflungr is a personal or clan name with several competing and contradictory uses in Germanic heroic legend.
King Goldemar and his queen look on as an old dwarf tells a tale. King Goldemar (German: [ˈɡɔldəmaːʁ]; also spelled Goldmar, Vollmar, and Volmar; German: [ˈɡɔldmaːʁ, fɔlmaːʁ]) is a dwarf or kobold from Germanic mythology and folklore. By the Middle Ages, Goldemar had become the king of the dwarfs in German belief. [1]
The most important sources on Germanic mythology, however, are works of Old Norse literature, most of which were written down in the Icelandic Commonwealth during the Middle Ages; of particular importance is the Poetic Edda. [1] Archaeological evidence, Runic inscriptions and place-names are also useful sources on Germanic mythology. [1]
Like elves, dwarfs are beings of Germanic lower mythology. They are mostly male and imagined as a collective; [141] however, individual named dwarfs also play an important role in Norse mythology. [142] In Norse and German texts, dwarfs live in mountains and are known as great smiths and craftsmen.
DR284 from the Hunnestad Monument, which has been interpreted as depicting the gýgr Hyrrokkin riding on a wolf with a snake as reins. [1]A jötunn (also jotun; plural jötnar; in the normalised scholarly spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn / ˈ j ɔː t ʊ n /; [2] or, in Old English, eoten, plural eotenas) is a type of being in Germanic mythology.
Dryad – Tree nymph or tree spirit from Greek mythology. Dullahan – Irish fairy, the headless rider. Dwarf – (Germanic) Human-shaped being often dwelling in mountains and in the earth. Empusa (or empousa, pl. empousai) – A shape-shifting being with a copper leg in Greek mythology. Elf – Supernatural being in Germanic mythology and ...