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Definition of Elfland
1. n. Fairyland.
Definition of Elfland
1. Proper noun. The land of the elves. Home of the elves. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elfland
1. the land of the elves [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elfland
Literary usage of Elfland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gypsy Trail: An Anthology for Campers by Mary Hopkins, Pauline Dorothea Goldmark (1914)
"O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of elfland faintly blowing! Blow,
let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, ..."
2. English Poetry in Three Volumes;: In Three Volumes ; with Introduction and Notes (1910)
"25 THOMAS RYMER AND THE QUEEN OF elfland TRUE THOMAS lay oer yond grassy bank,
And he beheld a ladie gay, A ladie that was brisk and bold, Come riding oer ..."
3. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Walter Scott (1836)
"... Amour with the Queen of elfland—His Re-appearance in latter Times—Another
Account from Reginald Scot—Conjectures on the Derivation of tbe word Fairy. ..."
4. In the Yule-log Glow edited by Harrison Smith Morris (1891)
"THE HARD TIMES IN elfland. Strange that the termagant winds should scold The
Christmas Eve so bitterly! But Wife, and Harry, the four-year old, Big Charley, ..."
5. The World that God Destroyed, and Other Poems by Frederick Erastus Pierce (1911)
"VOICES FROM elfland I. THE APPEAL OF THE FAIRIES We make our home among the
gurgling brooks, Or through the woods beneath the fragrant pine; We tent beneath ..."
6. English Poetry: With Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"THOMAS RYMER AND THE QUEEN OF elfland TRUE THOMAS lay oer yond grassy bank, And
he beheld a ladie gay, A ladie that was brisk and bold, Come riding oer the ..."
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