Elves were not exclusively young and beautiful. In the Swedish folktale Little Rosa and Long Leda, an elvish woman (älvakvinna) arrives in the end and saves the heroine, Little Rose, on the condition that the king's cattle no longer graze on her hill. She is described as a beautiful old woman and by her aspect people saw that she belonged to the subterraneans.
elves were not exclusively young and beautiful in the swedish folktale little rosa and long leda an elvish woman (älvakvinna) arrives in the end and saves the heroine little rose on the condition that the king's cattle no longer graze on her hill she is described as a beautiful old woman and by her aspect people saw that she belonged to the subterraneans