place

Svartálfaheim

Places

The dark-elf or dwarf forge-world in Norse speech. Not Álfheim as the light-elf home, and not Niðavellir under a forced merge.

Also known as Svartalfheim

Norse tradition

  • Svartálfaheim appears in Norse tradition.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning names Svartálfaheim among the dark-elf / dwarf forge-world speech of that cosmography. A named under-world in that prose, not Álfheim as the light-elf home and not Niðavellir under a forced merge.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Gylfaginning · Snorri Sturluson

    Snorri Sturluson, Gylfaginning, in the Prose Edda.