Definition of "Alfar"

Alfar

proper noun
singular alf
1. (Norse mythology) The elves as a group.
  Quotations
  The Alfar still live in the memory and traditions of the peasantry of Scandinavia.
  1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 135
  "Ill is it with the Æsir, ill is it with the Alfar."
  1964, J. A. Macculloch, The Mythology of All Races, New York: Cooper Square Publishers, page 220