also just found this on elves relationship to fairies - more of the same 'word changing for the same thing' that happenend in every society as each made the word their own (like akenaton=>moses)
"Elf (ves) means also faerie and derived from the word alfarfrom the Nordic and Teutonic languages which is associated with mountains and water. This clearly illustrates the close relationship between faeries and the earth." -
http://faerie.monstrous.com/#_Toc524843390not much real info on green path or faeire wicca - that may be where i'm heading, dunno yet
this heathen paradigm is a hard slog - i miss the eros of the goddess, cause a normal child only gets agape
but there's nothing like being on the bleeding edge of hands-on, in-the-field research into the old ways!