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>It's not an allegory, this IS Asatru, anon. The dead who are chosen by the Gods to dwell with them go on to become Alfar
you still don't understand the differentiation between poetic elves and common parlance elves, even though I've explained it like half a dozen times in this thread.
Elf is a nebulous term. It does not have one particularized definition.
In our poetic sources, an elf is a human who became a god after their death, such as with Helgi Hundingsbana.
An elf in common parlance (for pagans) is a spirit. It basically means gremlin, or bogeyman.
Weyland the Smith and Helgi Hundingsbana and the evil dwarfess mentioned in the Ribe skull fragment cannot possibly be related entities in any way, even though they are both dwarves/elves.
But to say that "all elves are X" is to essentially force legendary human heroes and curse-bearing demons into the same family.

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