elf-dance

Definitions

1. 1

   A dance performed by elves.

   • Many village musicians have been known, who have learned from him to play this elf-dance, and have sometimes played the first parts of it at Christmas parties and elsewhere.
2. 2

   Synonym of fairy ring (“a ring of fungi

   Synonym of fairy ring (“a ring of fungi; a place where fairies dance”).

   • The Elves are extremely fond of dancing in the meadows, where they form those circles of a livelier green which from them are called Elf-dance (Elfdans).
   • This notion as to the cause of the rings being the dancing of the fairies was held by Drayton [...] In Wales, too, the same notion is prevalent, and it is to be found also in Sweden and Belgium, where they call these rings "elf-dances."

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