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The Simonside Dwarfs also known as Brownmen, Bogles and Duergar are a race of ugly dwarfs, particularly associated with the Simonside Hills of Northumberland, in northern England. Their leader was said to be known as ''Roarie''.〔''Ghosts of The North Country'', Henry Tegner, 1991 Butler Publishing ISBN 0-946928-40-1, page 62〕 In F. Grice's telling of the traditional story ''The Duergar'' in ''Folk Tales of the North Country'' (1944), one of them is described as being short, wearing a lambskin coat, moleskin trousers and shoes, and a hat made of moss stuck with a feather. The legendary dwarfs of Simonside were mentioned in the local newspaper, the ''Morpeth Gazette'', in 1889, and in Tyndale’s ''Legends and Folklore of Northumbria'', 1930. They delighted in leading travellers astray, especially after dark, often carrying lighted torches to lead them into bogs, rather like a Will-o'-the-wisp.〔 The menacing creatures would often disappear at dawn. The word ''duergar'' is likely to be derived from the Old Norse word for dwarf or dwarfs (''dvergar''), however it may also come from the dialectal words for ''"dwarf"'' on the Anglo-Scottish border which include ''dorch'', ''dwerch'', ''duerch'', ''Duergh'' and ''Duerwe'' amongst others 〔''Familiar letters of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1'', Sir Walter Scott, Houghton Mifflin, 1894, page 151〕〔''Concise Scots dictionary'' Mairi Robinson, Edinburgh University Press, 1999, ISBN 1-902930-01-0, ISBN 978-1-902930-01-5 pages 162-166〕〔http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dwarf〕 with the added Norse ''-ar'' plural.〔 These ''Border'' words for ''"dwarf"'', like the Standard English form, all derive from the Old English ''dweorh'' or ''dweorg'' via the Middle English ''dwerg''.〔〔〔(Online Etymology Dictionary )〕 == See also == * Simonside Hills * Elf * English mythology * Norse dwarves (Dvergar) * Norse Mythology 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simonside Dwarfs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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