Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

In the gloom and solitude of the forest, “where the bitter wormwood stood pale grey” and where “the hoar stones lay thick,” the black, giant elves had their dwelling.

Red was the colour sacred to Thor and it was also the colour abhorred not only by witches in particular but by all the powers of darkness and evil.

time when grown men believed in elves and goblins as naturally as they believed in trees,