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THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES.

In the Faroëse song of Finnur hin friði, we have the following verse:—

Hegar íð Finnur hetta sær.Mannspell var at meini,Skapti hann seg í varglíki:Hann feldi allvæl fleiri.
When this peril Finn saw,That witchcraft did him harm,Then he changed himself into a were-wolf:He slew many thus.

The following is from the second Kviða of Helga Hundingsbana (stroph. 31):—

May the blade bite,Which thou brandishestOnly on thyself,when it Chimes on thy head.Then avenged will beThe death of Helgi,When thou, as a wolf,Wanderest in the woods,Knowing nor fortuneNor 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.

The Ynglinga Saga (c. 7) says of Odin, that "he changed form; the bodies lay as though sleeping or dead, but he was a bird or a beast, a fish, or a woman, and went in a twinkling to far distant lands, doing his

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