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GANDALF m Norse Mythology, Literature

Means "wand elf" in Old Norse, from the elements gandr "wand, staff, cane" and álfr "elf". This name belongs to a dwarf in the 'Völuspá', a 13th-century Scandinavian manusсriрt which forms part of the Poetic Edda.