• Vǫlsa þáttr is a short story which is only extant in the Flateyjarbók codex, where it is found in a chapter of Óláfs saga helga. It is probably from the...
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  • Tóka þáttr Tókasonar Völsa þáttr Þorsteins þáttr bæjarmagns Brenna Adams byskups Eindriða þáttr ok Erlings Eymundar þáttr hrings Eymundar þáttr af Skörum...
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    above composed by the skald Bragi Boddason. Gefjun is sworn by in the þáttr Völsa þáttr, where the daughter of a thrall reluctantly worships a penis severed...
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    referred to in Egils saga and Vatnsdæla saga, and are used as insults. Völsa þáttr describes how in 1029 CE, Olaf II of Norway visited a heathen household...
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    Gern sacrificed white horses and regularly consumed their meat. The Völsa þáttr, a 14th-century text, reveals a close association between the horse and...
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    Swedish Champion"), Hróa þáttr heimska ("The Tale of Roi the Fool") and Völsa þáttr ("the Tale of the Phallos"). "Storslått sagaverk fullført". Stavanger...
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  • Völsung as Völsi, a cognate of Wæls. The name Völsi appears elsewhere in Völsa þáttr, a short story from Óláfs saga helga describing a preserved phallus,...
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    phallic deity, representing male fertility and love. The short story Völsa þáttr describes a family of Norwegians worshiping a preserved horse penis....
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    noted that the association between the god and chastity is also seen in Völsa þáttr, when she is invoked by a girl who opposes the religious practice involving...
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    Thus, Ibn Fadlān's account is reminiscent of a detail in the Old Norse Völsa þáttr, where two pagan Norwegian men lift the lady of the household over a...
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    attested as having taken place in Scandinavia, each in a single source. Völsa þáttr, preserved in Flateyjarbók, describes a family in Northern Norway at...
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    Helga þáttr Þórissonar Jökuls þáttr Búasonar 'Norna-Gests þáttr Ragnarssona þáttr Sörla þáttr Tóka þáttr Tókasonar Völsa þáttr Þorsteins þáttr bæjarmagns...
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    "giving" Skjöldr, unnamed jötunn Four oxen Prose Edda, Ynglinga saga, Völsa þáttr, Gersemi (Old Norse) "Treasure, precious object" None attested None attested...
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    sometimes eaten, and supposed to transmit the animal's strengths. The Völsa þáttr, where a couple of pagan farmers keep a horse's penis and regard it as...
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  • Halldórs þáttr Snorrasonar inn fyrri, Halldórs þáttr Snorrasonar inn síðari, Stúfs þáttr inn skemmri, Stúfs þáttr inn meiri, Völsa þáttr, Brands þáttr örva...
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    "March", i.e. the forest of fescues/fools. The Lexicon Poeticon and Völsa Þattr tells that 'vingull' is the name for a stallions genitalia [1] According...
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  • fertility was very prevalent in ancient Norwegian and Norse literature. The Vǫlsa þáttr, a native Norwegian text, tells of a fertility cult that revered horses'...
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  • Heidrek) Die Geizhalsstrophen (from Gautrek's Saga) Die Vǫlsistrophen (from Völsa þáttr in Flateyjarbók) Die Buslubœn (from Bósa saga ok Herrauðs) Die Tryggðamál...
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