"elf-man" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1845, Eric Gustave Geijer, The History of the Swedes, London: Whittaker and Co., page 17, column 2:",
          "text": "The wick and elf-men were, from the very character of their country, Wikingers, a hardy and stubborn race, who lived by the sea, and bore no good reputation.",
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          "ref": "1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, volume II, London: Edward Lumley, page 128:",
          "text": "Here the woman learned that the Elf-wife could not be delivered without the aid of a Christian woman, she being herself a Christian, but had been carried off by the Elf-man.",
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          "ref": "1888, Charles M. Doughty, Travel in Arabia Deserta, volume II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 192:",
          "text": "In the midst of the way that old elf-man stood again in his sight, and said, “Salaam aleyk! - Sawest thou my son, and hast thou brought me aught from him?”",
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        "An adult male elf."
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