• Elvehøj (Elf Hill) is the Danish name of a Scandinavian ballad (Danmarks gamle folkeviser no. 46), known in Swedish as Älvefärd (Sveriges medeltida ballader...
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  • Elves' Hill (redirect from Elvehøj (play))
    Problems playing these files? See media help. The two ballads used were Elvehøj (DgF 46B) which begins "Jeg lagde mit hoved til Elverhøj" (I laid my head...
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  • Rhymer, who was carried off by the Queen of Elfland, and the Danish ballad Elvehøj (Elf Hill). The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger writes that the Fellowship...
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  • with wild nature. Yet another strand of legend holds that Elfland, as in Elvehøj ("Elf Hill") and other traditional stories, is dangerous to mortals because...
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    sometimes the everyday person is a man and the elf a woman, as also in Elvehøj (much the same story as Elveskud, but with a happy ending), Herr Magnus...
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  • Lord of the Rings as in the medieval Thomas the Rhymer and the Danish Elvehøj (Elf Hill), presents apparent contradictions. Both the story itself and...
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    Bournonville must have had the folk songs Elveskud (The Elf-shot) and Elvehøj (The Elves' Hill) in mind when he has Junker Ove linger at the hill after...
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    water-elves, naiads" Elves are strongly connected to nature. Scandinavian ballad Elvehøj Mortal visitors to Elfland are in danger, as time seems different there...
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  • elvehjem (A-F) A 49 Ungersven och havsfrun "Sir Bosmer in Elfland" 46 Elvehøj (A-C) A 65 "Elfin Hill"; "Elvir Hill" 47 Elveskud (A-Æ) A 63 Clerk Corvill...
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    38: "The Two Sisters"), "A 50" (A 50: "Harpans kraft"), or "A65" (A 65: "Elvehøj — Knight released from elves at dawn"). It is somewhat analogous to the...
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  • contains some of our earliest attestations of Scandinavian ballads, such as Elvehøj. Many of the texts it contains are edited in Danmarks gamle Folkeviser...
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  • contributed to the celebrations by playing Elisabeth in the patriotic Elvehøj. After the war, she toured mainly in Denmark but also performed as Carmen...
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