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Motif-Index of Early Icelandic Literature
D536. T. by removing chains from neck. Cf. Gering I 273-75: t. by putting on red
thread and removing it from neck.
D537. T. by changing clothes. Amb ch. 20-25.
D550. Transformation by eating or drinking.
D551. T. by eating.
D551.1. T. by eating fruit.
D551.1.1. T. by eating apple. Dinus 46-50.
D551.3. T. by eating flesh. Cf. B635.2; D1357.1; D1358.1; E714.4.1. Bosa 26 ch. 8.
D560. Transformation by various means.
D562. T. by bathing. Cf. Skj II 12.
D565. T. by touching.
D565.5. T. by kiss. Cf. D735.
D566. T. by striking.
D566.1. T. by striking with wolf-skin glove. Cf. D1066. HrolfKr 50 ch. 19, cf. Schlauch
83, LiestølSF 211; Trolldom 94.
D567. T. by sunlight. Cf. F451.3.2.1.
D572. T. by magic object.
D572.2. T. by ring. Sagan af Marteini målara ch. 9.
D572.5. T. by means of magic stone. NikL ch. 8; Gibbon ch. 3.
D579. T. by looking in a mirror. Cf. Dl 163. EgÅsm XIII 8, XV 6 (FAS III 393, 397);
SigJ> ch. 21, 32-36, cf. Jiriczek’s introd. to Bosa s. lxi; Vald 65 ch. 1.
D600-699. MISCELLANEOUS TRANSFORMATION INCIDENTS
D610. Repeated transformation. Cf. D630. GHrolf 342 ch. 33; SturlSt 613 ch. 12;
Bosa ch. 14 (FAS III 230-31).
D615. T. combat. Fight between contestants who strive to outdo each other in suc-
cessive transformations.
D615.4. Men transformed to animals fight. See D659.2.
D620. Periodic transformation. A person or thing is transformed at definite intervals.
Vols ch. 8-9.
D621. Daily transformation.
D621.1. Animal by day; man by night. HrolfKr ch. 18-22 (FAS I 49-60).
D621.1.1. Man by day, animal by night. Ldb ch. 79, Eg ch. I 8: Kveld-ulfr.
D623. T. every ten days. Vols ch. 8.
D630. Transformation and disenchantment at will. Cf. Dl 13.1; D128; and, in general,
references throughout D610-629, D640-659, D670-699, F451.3.3.0.1, nearly all
of which motifs involve the idea of voluntary transformation. In Old Icelandic
the idea of people possessing a power like this is often expressed through the
words »hamramr«, »eigi einhamr«, »hamhleypa«, »fara hamfari«.
Eyrb ch. LXI 5; Eg I 8, III 18-20, XXVII 6, LIX 52, LXXII 11; Guilt ch.
14, 18; Finnb ch. 29; HåvarO ch. 1; Sturl I 5; Ys ch. 6-7 (Odin); Floam ch. 16;
Vols ch. 9; Bosa 25, 84 ch. 8, 6 (FAS III 210); ForstVik 390, 395 ch. 3, 5; GHrolf
241 ch. 2; SorlaSt 426 ch. 10; HålfdBr 573 n. ch. 6; BårOSn 11, 14, 18 ch. 5, 8, 9;