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.
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
