The Heiðinn Chronicles Elves and Dwarves In the Eddas, we are told of Elves and Dwarves, the "light-elves" (ljósálfar), "dark-elves" (dökkálfar),and the "black-elves" (svartálfar) or dwarves (dvergar). In the days of our ancestors, álfablót ("elves' sacrifice"), were performed to honor the Elfish Folk. 'Next the gods took their places on their thrones. They issued their judgments and remembered where the dwarves had come to life in the soil under the earth, like maggots in flesh. The dwarves eme