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• 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 Words Hamr and Vargr
• Laws affecting Outlaws
• “To become a Boar”
• Recapitulation.

• Norse Traditions
• Manner in which the Change was effected
• Vœlundar Kvœda
• Instances from the Völsung Saga
• Hrolf’s Saga
• Kraka
• Faroëse Poem
• Helga Kvida
• Vatnsdæla Saga
• Eyrbyggja Saga

• Definition of Lycanthropy
• Marcellus Sidetes
• Virgil
• Herodotus
• Ovid
• Pliny
• Agriopas
• Story from Petronius
• Arcadian Legends
• Explanation offered

The Book of Were-Wolves explores the history and habits of werewolves. The author describes his first encounter with the idea of werewolves in a small French village and his subsequent investigation.