Nah, I’m not interested in that; what was that about the paleolithic era?
Plus, "soma" ~ the drug of the ancients, storied in song and dance, praised by the bards.
I'm still trying to figure out how the four traditional Hindu household goddesses ended up in the deal, but they did ~ although you don't hear about them that much these days ~ Santa's helpers maybe?
The dwarves are real ~ the Northern people have the highest incidence of dwarfism of any European group. Rendeers have rednoses when the mushroom with the soma (amanita muscaria) is in season. It's red with white spots.
They imagine they are flying, and so do people who consume that same mushroom.
The dwarves spend all year making gifts and ornaments for sale to the far larger Norse and Pomar to the South. In more ancient times they were out there on their own, but they made baskets and things of horn and bone all winter long during the great long night, then in the Spring traded them to more primitive folk for the sort of goods that don't grow near the ice and snow.