Elphyne

Scots

Proper noun

Elphyne

Alternative form of Elfame
- 1583, Robert Sempill, 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)
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References

“Elphyne” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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