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5166.1. Mutilation: beard torn off with the skin (and cheeks). OOdd 136 (FAS II
256); (y.) Bosa 90 ch. 6; SorlaSt 423-24 ch. 8; bidr II 54; OrmSt 530 (FMS III
224; Fjfsl 218); Amb 126 ch. 23.
5166.2. Mutilation: cheek and chin cut off\ but held together by biting the beard
Sogubr 22 ch. 9 (FAS I 384).
5166.3. Mutilation: shoulder-skin torn off in wrestling. GHrolf 264 ch. 9.
5166.4. Mutilation: cheeks cut off. Cf. S166.1 and 166.2. Sturl I 483; SorlaSt 418
ch. 5; HålfdE XX 8 (FAS III 550); EgÅsm XIII 5 (ib. 392); Andr 63.
5166.5. Mutilation: chin (and lips) cut off. Cf. S166.2. Sturl I 483; Gullb ch. 17;
HålfdE V 10-12 (FAS III 525); Bosa 57 ch. 14 (ib. 230); Vilm 174 ch. 15.
S 166.6. »Blood-eagle« cut on man's back by flaying and salting. Skj 1232: Knutsdråpa
ca. 1038; Reg 26 = 6låfTr ch. 286 in Flb I 352 = Nornag 64 ch. 4 (FAS I 328);
HaraldHårf ch. 30 in Hkr 1141; Orkn ch. 8; OrmSt 531 (FMS III 225); RagnarL
ch. 17 (18) (FAS 1292); RagnarS 463 ch. 3 (ib. 354); Sigb 127 ch. 10 (owl instead
of eagle); Saxo lib. IX c. V 5 = Herrm 656. Cf. Vries 131.
S166.7.* Mutilation: cutting off shoulder or piece of the back. VigaGlum ch. 23;
GHrolf 353 ch. 36; Amb 89 ch. 14.
5167. Mutilation by crushing. Cf. SI 16; S162.5.
5168. Mutilation: tearing off ears. Cf. Q451.6. Sverr in Flb II 576; Gullb ch. 17;
HålfdE V 10 (FAS III 525); SorlaSt 423 n., 423-24 ch. 8; HålfdBr 587 ch. 15;
Bosa 57, 90 ch. 14, 6 (FAS III 229); EgÅsm VII 13, X 13, XIH 4 (ib. 378, 386,
392); Karlamagnus, ed. Unger 443.
5172. Mutilation: nose cut off or crushed. Cf. Q451.5. HålfdBr 587 ch. 15; HålfdE
XVII 11 (FAS III 546); EgÅsm XIII 6, XVI 3 (ib. 392-93, 400-01); borstB ch.
6, 9 in FMS III 186, 192; BårdSn 27 ch. 13; Vilm 174 ch. 15; SamsF ch. 12; Karla-
magnus, ed. Unger p. 443.
S172.1. Angry paramour bites off his mistress' nose. Cf. Q451.5.1.1.
5173. Mutilation: breaking (two, three) ribs. Cf. F624.3.1. Bisk II 118; SorlaSt 424
ch. 8; HålfdE XII 12 (FAS III 536); EgÅsm XII 10 (ib. 391); bidr I 362; OrmSt
521 (FMS III 206); FloresS XV 2; Bæring 89, 96 ch. 5, 14.
5175. Horses mutilated: tails cut off and manes torn off with the skin in order to
humiliate their owner. Skjold ch. 12 = HrolfKr 78-79, 88 ch. 27, 29 (FAS I 90).
5176. Mutilation: sex organs cut off. HHu I 40 = Vols ch. 9; HHj 20; Sturl I 485;
HaraldG ch. 9 in FMS VII 185; HålfdBr 587 ch. 15; ÅnB 342 ch. 4.
S180. Wounding or torturing. Amb 160-62 ch. 33 (32).
5182. Giri fastened by hair to rafter. Cf. Rlll.2.3.
5183. Frightful meal. Cf. Q478.
S200-299. CRUEL SACRIFICES
5210. Children sold or promised.
5211. Child sold {promised) to devil {Odin). Cf. HålfH 13-7 (FAS II 26) and FFC
83 xxxiii; Herrm 428 n. ad Saxo lib. VI c. V 6-7.
S220. Reasons for promise (sale) of child.
S223. Childless couple promise child to the devil if they may only have one. OlåfTr
ch. 204 in FMS II 167-68, by Odd ch. 45 (34). Cf. Saxo lib. VII c. X 1 and 3 =
Herrm 519-20; I. M. Boberg in Festskr. til H. P. Hansen, Kbh.-Årh. 1949, p.
208-12.