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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Gefjon (section Völsa þáttr)
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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Horses in Germanic paganism (section Vólsa þáttr)
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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The horse in Nordic mythology (section Völsa þáttr)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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