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<blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1553450" data-attributes="member: 8447">Well, there are the Elder and Prose Eddas, the basis for most of our knowledge of Norse mythology and cosmology.&nbsp; A fair amount on dwarfs, alfar, etc., in there.&nbsp; I know that Penguin has at least a copy of the Prose Edda (by Snorre Sturlson), so that is pretty easy to get ahold of, but the Elder Edda, the better of the two, is harder to find.&nbsp; For Tolkein-esque elves, I would check old Irish tales dealing with the daoine sidhe -- Book of Invasions/Conquests, if you can find it, is great material there.&nbsp; Once you start getting in sprites and other wee peoples, find collections of old folktales, especially the ones that haven't been &quot;cleaned up&quot;.&nbsp; If you can ever, ever find a copy, run, do not walk, and get a copy of Nancy Arrowsmith's A Field Guide to the Little People -- this is brimming with information on fey lore.&nbsp; The information is drawn from hundreds of short folktales and is inordinately useful.&nbsp; Sadly, I believe it went through a single printing back in about 1977.&nbsp; I practically keep my copy under lock and key!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wombat, post: 1553450, member: 8447"] Well, there are the Elder and Prose Eddas, the basis for most of our knowledge of Norse mythology and cosmology. A fair amount on dwarfs, alfar, etc., in there. I know that Penguin has at least a copy of the Prose Edda (by Snorre Sturlson), so that is pretty easy to get ahold of, but the Elder Edda, the better of the two, is harder to find. For Tolkein-esque elves, I would check old Irish tales dealing with the daoine sidhe -- Book of Invasions/Conquests, if you can find it, is great material there. Once you start getting in sprites and other wee peoples, find collections of old folktales, especially the ones that haven't been "cleaned up". If you can ever, [I]ever[/I] find a copy, run, do not walk, and get a copy of Nancy Arrowsmith's [I]A Field Guide to the Little People[/I] -- this is brimming with information on fey lore. The information is drawn from hundreds of short folktales and is inordinately useful. Sadly, I believe it went through a single printing back in about 1977. I practically keep my copy under lock and key! ;) [/QUOTE]

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