- ...e form (first found in eighth century glosses) was ''ælfen'' or ''elfen'' (with a possible feminine plural ''-ælfa'', found in ''dunælfa'') which became ...in Southern and Western forms of Middle English. The Middle English forms with this weak declension were aluen(e) and eluen(e). <ref>'''Elves in Anglo-Sax37 KB (6,068 words) - 10:22, 16 September 2010