Elphyne

Scots

Alternative forms

Elfame
Elphame, Elfhame (modern)

Proper noun

Elphyne

Fairyland, elfland
- Robert Sempill (1583) Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation, Vol. 1‎, page 365: “Ane carling of the quene of phareis, That ewill win geir to elphyne careis (Poem 45, v.372)”

References

“Elphyne” in Dictionary of the Scots Language, Scottish Language Dictionaries, Edinburgh

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