What does eldfather mean?
Eldfather means (dialectal, now archaic) One's grandfather or forefather..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(dialectal, now archaic) One's grandfather or forefather..
Elof sat with his eyes closed, still in the grip of the thought that he had just heard his eldfathers, all the way back to Adam, chanting at the table.
For some reason "rune" continued to be the most attractive of the two, though, truth to tell, there had been no more than the usual mention of the word either in my general reading or in the Frisian (the language of my eldfathers) […]
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Eldfather means (dialectal, now archaic) One's grandfather or forefather..
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Elof sat with his eyes closed, still in the grip of the thought that he had just heard his eldfathers, all the way back to Adam, chanting at the table.
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