The Book of Were-Wolves by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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"'Maybe you have had sufficient,' said the queen, and she
laughed."--(Hrolfs Saga Kraka, c. 24-27, condensed.) In the Faroëse song of Finnur hin friði, we have the following verse:-- Hegar íð Finnur hetta sær. When this peril Finn saw, Mannspell var at meini, That witchcraft did him harm, Skapti hann seg í varglíki: Then he changed himself into a were-wolf: Hann feldi allvæl fleiri. He slew many thus. The following is from the second Kviða of Helga Hundingsbana (stroph. 31):-- May the blade bite, Which thou brandishest Only on thyself, when it Chimes on thy head. Then avenged will be The death of Helgi, When thou, as a wolf, Wanderest in the woods, Knowing nor fortune Nor any pleasure, Haying no meat, Save rivings of corpses. In all these cases the change is of the form: we shall now come to instances in which the person who is changed has a double shape, and the soul animates one after the other. |
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