Assertion: myth's form | /r/ObjectUse | used for ælfen
Facets:
value: during the old english period
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: During the Old English period, separate forms were used for female elves (such as ælfen, putatively from common Germanic *ɑlβ(i)innjō), but during the Middle English period the word elf came routinely to include female beings.