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F451.2.0.6. Dwarfs are pale. Cf. F451.1.1. Alv 2.
F451.2.7. Dress of dwarf.
F451.2.7.3. Dwarfs referred to as »gray«, not specifying whether as to dress or hair.
Cf. Nlpingr in Vsp 11 = MC 271.
F451.2.7.5. Dwarfs wear red coats. GHrolf 307 ch. 25: Mondull is »i skarlatsbunaåi
ok skarband um enni af gulli gert«; ForstUxaf in Flb I 254 (FMS III 116); MC
272.
F451.2.8. Voice of dwarfs: »dvergmål« (echo). BårOSn 7 ch. 4; SturlSt 629 ch. 18;
JarlmH 14, 35 ch. 10, 18; VilhSj 11, 62 ch. 6, 26; Sigb ch. 8; Konr 68 ch. 9;
MC 269.
F451.3. Characteristics of dwarfs.
F451.3.2. Dwarf rendered powerless.
F451.3.2.1. Dwarfs turn to stone at sunrise. Cf. A974; F531.6.12.2; G304.2.5. Alv
35 = MC 10, 197, 269. Cf. Saxo lib. III c. II 5.
F451.3.2.1.1. Dwarf prevented from getting into his stone before sunrise till he pro-
mises to do what hero demands (esp. to forge weapons). Cf. F451.3.4.2; F451.5.2.13.
Herv 1-3, 92-93 (FAS I 414-15, 514-15 = BuggeNS 204-05): forge the sword
Tyrfingr; ÅnB 327 (cf. 338) ch. 1: forge bow and arrows; Mågus 24-25 ch. 3-14:
forge musical instrument (»lu6r«); Sigb 190-92 ch. 30—31: steal oracular stone;
SamsF ch. 11: get informations and make car; Villif 29 ch. 14: forge ring, belt,
and necklace similar to one’s own; Fastus 8 ch. 3.
F451.3.2.1.2. Dwarf otherwise caught and thus forced to procure what hero demands.
Skåldsk ch. 48 (39); Vols ch. 14 (Reg in BuggeE 212 ff.): Andvari’s gold; Fi5r I
34-38 ch. 28-29: tells how to get gold and the sword Naglhringr by killing Grimr.
F451.3.3. Dwarf as magician. Reginn in Nomag 55 ch. 3 (Flb I 349 = FAS I 321);
Mondull in GHrolf 299 ch. 23 ff.; Sindri in ForstVik 457 ch. 25.
F451.3.3.0.1. Dwarf can take what shape he wants. Cf. Andvari in Skåldsk ch. 47
(39) and Vols ch. 14; Dimus in ViktorBl quoted ZDPh XXVI 12-13; Mondull
in GHrolf 307 ch. 25 ff.
(F451.3.3.7. Dwarfs predict.)
F451.3.3.8. Dwarfs made invisible by magic caps. Cf. D1361.
F451.3.4. Dwarfs as workmen. Cf. F271.
F451.3.4.1. Dwarfs as artificers. Cf. F531.6.6. Fjolsv 33-34; Amb 170 ch. 35 (34
in the Reyk. ed.): Tosti leads the building of a new castle; JarlmH 26 ch. 14 and
KåraK 63 ch. 31: twelve dwarfs build king’s castle.
F451.3.4.2. Dwarfs as smiths. Cf. D1181; F451.3.2.1.1; F451.5.1.3; M414.5. Hyndl
7; Gylf ch. 44 (35); Skåldsk ch. 44 (35), 62 (50); GislaS II ch. 2 in IslF p. 9,
ed. 1929 p. 76; Reg in BuggeE 215 = Vols ch. 15; Nomag 57, 59 ch. 4-5 (Flb
I 350-51, FAS I 322-23); OOdd 24-25, 100 (ch. VI 1-2, XXIX 13, FAS II 173,
215, 511); ÅsmK 81, 95, ch. 1, 8 (FAS II 464-66, 480); Sorla 275 (FAS I 391-92
ch. 1; MC 123); (y.) Bosa 109-11 ch. 11; EgÅsm III 3, XVII 6 (FAS III 368,
403); ViktorBl in ZDPh XXVI 12 and introd. to Bosa lxvi; Fi6r I 34-36, 73-81,
113, 179-81; Mågus 17, 24-25 ch. 10, 13-14; Sigb 139-40 ch. 16; VilhSj ch. 7;
SigrgV 118 ch. 2; Fertram 730 ch. 6 (ZDPh XXVI 14); Ector ch. 2, 6; ParmesL
20 ch. 9; Forgr 27 ch. 5; FjJon 33 (21-22) ch. 13; Vilm 154 ch. 8; KåraK 80
ch. 39; Andr 19; Huld no. 7. Cf. Leyen 57; Vries 212, 302.
F451.3.4.4. Dwarf sews. Skåldsk ch. 44 (35).
F451.3.12. Dwarfs are intelligent.