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Eventually, white dwarfs cool off to become black dwarfs, stellar remnants made mainly of carbon, oxygen, and neon.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Three kinds of elves are mentioned in the Edda: the black dwarfs, and brownies, who both dwelt under ground, and the fair elves, who dwelt in Fairyland or Alfheim.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
Herodotus tells of certain youths who penetrated the desert to the Niger and found there a city of black dwarfs.
From The Negro by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
There was once a farmer who was master of one of the little black dwarfs that are the blacksmiths and armourers, and he got him in a very curious way.
From Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian by Various
Races and Tribes of the Philippines The Aetas of the Philippines are not the only black dwarfs in the world.
From A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows
