Sources

Where the elves, the glow and the way up come from, with what could not be confirmed.

No page, frame or still from any of these is in the repository. Several entries below are search excerpts, not full reads; they are marked.

Nordlys and Amulet

• Nordlys, Store norske leksikon: Jotundalen as a parallel world where Norse myth and folk tales are real. The article names no elf people.
• Falch profile, Barnebokinstituttet: digital work aiming at a less digital expression; Disney and Ghibli.
• Review, Barnebokkritikk: round forms for kind characters, long noses for villains; backgrounds built like Ghibli's.
• Review, Dagbladet (search excerpt): the northern lights as a portal.
• Review of Amulet, Lines and Colors: thin single-weight outlines; backgrounds as muted suggestions, detail kept for establishing panels.
• Amulet, Wikipedia: the elves' role as the antagonist people.
• Interview, Mixed-Up Files (search excerpt).

Not confirmed online: how Amulet's elves are drawn (grey skin, long ears, slit eyes, uniforms, a masked king). The description in this book is from the books as remembered.

Film and series

• The Dragon Prince, Moonshadow elves: fandom wiki and Animation World Network (search excerpts): three fixed marks per figure, homes in very large trees; cel-shaded 3D over painted backgrounds.
• Frozen II: production design, SoCal Thrills, Eyvind Earle and the verticals, Nerdist, the research trip, All Ears (search excerpt).
• Arcane: Red Shark News and Animation World Network (search excerpt).
• Raya and the Last Dragon: Bleeding Cool (search excerpt), Creative Boom.
• Wolfwalkers: IndieWire (search excerpt): the place draws its people.

Folklore and craft

• Alver, Store norske leksikon: the lysalver, "beautiful as the sun", in Alvheim, Frøy's home; later folded into the hidden folk; offerings of butter, milk and beer.
• Hulder, Wikipedia: hidden folk, kind to charcoal burners.
• Urnes style, Wikipedia: the interlace of the stave-church portal, the source of the loop motif, used here without the animals.
• Selburose, Wikipedia (search excerpt): why the eight-petal rose is woven, never knitted, and never red or white here.
• John Bauer: The Collector and Google Arts and Culture (search excerpts): muted colours with one bright thing, small figures among huge trunks.

Written from general knowledge and not looked up: the stabbur (a storehouse with an upper storey wider than its foot), the warp-weighted loom, stave-church shingle roofs, how unpainted timber weathers silver-grey, moonstone's adularescence.

The family book's sources are in Eventyrland: sources.