Chapter 3

Advantage of the Study of Norse Literature—Bear and Wolf-skin Dresses—The Berserkir—Their Rage—The Story of Thorir—Passages from the Aigla—The Evening Wolf—Skallagrim and his Son-Derivation of the Word “Hamr:” of “Vargr”—Laws affecting Outlaws—“To become a Boar”—Recapitulation