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the discord surrounds the contention that goethe mistranslated or borrowed a mistranslation : unlikely that goethe meant to say elf king and rather said alder king : the casualty is the loss of richness of meaning when both elf and alder are considered equally meaningful : the question becomes whether elf and alder, at their roots, are isomorphic, and the answer, given the axiom of sweet imagination [meta132], is that they are accepted a priori as isomorphic and all that is needed are the missing layers [isomorphisms] connecting the two conjectures : the layers are not known, but consider this conjecture: the layers relate to the indo european root albh meaning 'white' which also spawned the middle high german elbe and old english elf : elf king and alder king might be masculine and feminine emanations of the root alb which describe an isomorphic god or goddess of various forms, consider: alberich, dwarf god of the underworld; alphito, arcadian goddess of barley; eller kong, danish king of the alders : whether elf king or alder king, a version of the same transformed deity is likely involved : the name is a marker, a place holder for a location in memory : guido von list relates a similar runic sound 'embla' to 'alder' through a description of yggdrasil: '... the designation "World-Ash" is also meaningful, for "ash" is "Ask"—the first man, the primal-father of humanity who bore the same name ("the primal mother was called Embla, i.e., "Alder")' : alder and elf share a relationship with 'alb' so erlkönig is the resonance of unseen layers