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Aelf can mean elf, but also simply supernatural, which might well, in the Christianized Anglo-Saxon wold, have a gloss of heavenly. (In all those Edwards and Edgars etc, the word 'Ead' means blessed.)
It's spelled Ælffled in Bede's "A History of the English Church and People," which was finished in 731.
It should be noted that Elfleda can also be a variant of the Anglo-Saxon feminine name Ælfflæd, which consists of the Old English elements 'ælf' meaning "elf" and 'flæd' meaning "beauty". An example of this is the 8th-century saint Ælfflæd of Whitby, whose name is also recorded as Elflaeda and Elfleda.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86lffl%C3%A6d_of_Whitby (in English)
- see the entry for Ælfflæd on page 17 of "Women's Names in Old English" written by Dr. Elisabeth Okasha: https://books.google.nl/books?id=3z0-fUT70DsC&pg=PA17 (in English). [noted -ed]

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