Alfheim is home to the elves of light in which ancient mythology?

Elf/Aelf is the Anglo Saxon/Germaic word for prince.

baymax you are partly right Tolkien did get a lot of his ideas from Norse mythology he was a professor of languages so studied and translated a lot of Norse text.

Tom, you are correct. Saxon heirs to a throne were called Aelfling or Aetheling.

Tom, oh right, so is that where j.r. Tolkien got his inspiration for the lord of the rings trilogy from??

thanks to Thor and those movies!