In case anyone's not seen this notice from the American Folklore Society C From: Dr Caroline Oates The Folklore Society, c/o The Warburg Institute, Woburn...
The following extract from the GhostWatch section of Fortean Times will appear in the upcoming May edtion (FT248) The largest find of Iron Age gold coins in...
Oooh, goody, goody! I haven't yet checked in the Gurdon book (not having a copy of my own), but if the quote proves accurate this will be a very rare, possibly...
Regquest from Martin Graebe - please reply direct to him: I have been dragooned into organising part of the programme for the Sabine Baring-Gould Appreciation...
...do they appear in folklore?? I am researching masons' marks, apotropaic symbols and graffiti in a romanesque tower in Lincolnshire. If you know of any...
Hiya! Just wondered if anyone out there has come across any United Kingdom based folklore about Duergars or similar creatures dating from pre-1840? I've just...
Beware! 'Dvergar' is not an English word at all but the normal Icelandic for 'dwarfs'; any English author who uses it (such as Grice in 1944 on the link you...
Hello John Billingsley forwarded the Duergar correspondance to me, as he knows I have an interest, so I've joined the group to add my contribution. I came...
Hi Laura, Â I've chased this elusive beastie a bit further, into Katharine Briggs's 'The Vanishing People' (which has better notes and refs that her...
Hi Gus, thanks for your reply, that's a huge help! I had not heard of the 'Draugar' before, there does seem to be some similarities there, i'll continue my...
Jacqueline is right - there is nothing remotely like these words in either Wright's Dialect Dictionary or the OED (CD-Rom edition) SR ... From: jacqueline...
Scott does indeed refer to Duergar in his note to Leyden's Cout [sic] of Keeldar (Vol. III), but he doesn't explain this usage because he had already described...
Nothing in the ongoing on-line version of OED, but searching the on-line version of the English Dialect Dictionary s.v. TROW I find: TROW, sb? Sc. Also written...
I found on-line: Brewers Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1894): Duerʹgar (2 syl.). Dwarfs who dwell in rocks and hills; noted for their strength, subtilty,...
And Scott may well have spent time in Coquetdale himself. I remember many years ago, the landlord of the Rose and Thistle at Alwinton telling me that Scott had...
It's good to see that Scott knew his Old icelandic grammar! 'Elfen' and 'duergar' are both correct plural forms, and treated as such. It would have been better...
Sorry to pour more cold water, Laura, but draugar are a red herring to your search. A draug is a malevolent dead human which emerges from the grave and goes...
Ah now, here Brewer is geting his singulars and plurals mixed. That the first dvergar (plural) sprang from Ymir's flesh is correct (Snorri Sturluson, and...
Does anyone have any information or old images re the Burning of Bartle aka Owd BARTLE? It is an annual tradition in our village - West Witton, I have been...
Hiya Jacqueline! The Brown Man of the Muirs connection is something i'm also looking into at the moment, they do seem to be quite similar in appearance but not...
Hi Andy Many thanks for your reply, sadly the Dalesman magazine articles are generally a rehash of previous inaccurate & unfounded reports. I have Ian Taylor's...
I've now found Scotts 'Letters on Demonology & Witchcraft' and it's in letter 5 theat he alludes to dvergar (p. 76 in th paperback Wordsworth edition). From...
Hi does anyone have access to the book 'Examples of Printed Folk-lore Concerning the North Riding of Yorkshire' by Eliza Gutch pub. 1901? I would appreciate a...
Hi there The whole book is available on the web at www.archive.org. All the best Caroline From: Dr Caroline Oates The Folklore Society, c/o The Warburg...
You're right, it appears that Dr Leyden did first refer to these creatures as duergars, and it seems his ballad was founded on an earlier tradition. In a note...
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