Scots

Alternative forms

• Elfame
• Elphame, Elfhame (modern)

Proper noun

Elphyne

1. Fairyland, elfland
   • Robert Sempill (1583) Satirical Poems of the Time of the Reformation, Vol. 1, page 365: “Ane carling of the quene of phareis, That ewill win geir to elphyne careis (Poem 45, v.372)”

References

“Elphyne” in Sir William Alexander Craigie, Adam Jack Aitken, James AC Stevenson and Margaret G. Dareau, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: From the 12th Century to the End of the 17th, OUP, 2002.