On: A small town in Sweden fights to preserve Elfdalia...

[contingencies]

Any language that begins with Elf- and features forests is clearly doing their marketing right. "Give me the five second pitch!" "Sympathy for cutesie elf people living in a forest in Sweden". Internet win.

[stapled_socks → contingencies]

The name in English seems a bit gimmicky. "Älv" in the context means "river" and not "elf". I guess someone choose to use this play on words in the translation to pique interest and garner sympathy.

[Kiro → stapled_socks]

Before 1902 the name of the parish was written Elfdalen so I'm not sure it's just a translation thing.

Edit: Ok, never mind. It's definitely a translation thing: "The English name of the vernacular was introduced in Dahl & Koptjevskaja-Tamm (2005)."

Very recent too.

[hashmush → stapled_socks]

More likely that they wanted the names to sound similar rather than being equivalent, and it's not that often one translates place names.

[kbelder → contingencies]

"I will diminish, and go into the west..."

We lost Quenya, except for some obscure academic and literary works, now we look like we'll lose Elfdalia.

[bpiche → kbelder]

Quenya is still alive if you want it to be. Maybe less so than Sindarin though.

[herodoturtle → contingencies]

> "Give me the five second pitch!"

  a stallion battalion
  defending the medallion
  war crying in Elfdalian
  a charging foe rapscallion

[contingencies → herodoturtle]

Missed opportunity: Pygmalion.