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In the Faroėse song of Finnur hin friši, we have the following verse:--
Hegar ķš Finnur hetta sęr. When this peril Finn saw,
Mannspell var at meini, That witchcraft did him harm,
Skapti hann seg ķ varglķki: Then he changed himself into a were-wolf:
Hann feldi allvęl fleiri. He slew many thus.
The following is from the second Kviša 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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