However, the precise character of beliefs in elves across the Germanic-speaking world has varied considerably across time, space, and different cultures. In English literature of the Elizabethan era, elves became conflated with the fairies of Romance culture, so that the two terms began to be used interchangeably. In Scandinavia, probably through a process of euphemism, elves often came to be known as the beings called the huldra or huldufólk.
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