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Men could be elevated to the rank of elves after death, such as the petty king Olaf Geirstad-Elf.

The smith hero Völundr is identified as ' Ruler of Elves ' ( vísi álfa ) and ' One among the Elven Folk ' ( álfa ljóði ), in the poem Völundarkviða, whose later prose introduction also identifies him as the son of a king of ' Finnar ', an Arctic people respected for their shamanic magic ( most likely, the sami ).

In the Thidrek's Saga a human queen is surprised to learn that the lover who has made her pregnant is an elf and not a man.

In the saga of Hrolf Kraki a king named Helgi rapes and impregnates an elf-woman clad in silk who is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.