Lindesnes-varulven

werewolf · Norway · Nordic

Lindesnes-varulven (the werewolf of Lindesnes) is a shapeshifting wolf-creature from the folklore of the Lindesnes region, the southernmost tip of Norway. Unlike the continental European werewolf tradition, the Lindesnes-varulv is more closely related to Norse concepts of hamskifte (shape-shifting) — a person who could transform into a wolf by putting on a wolf-skin belt or by being born under a specific configuration of stars. The Lindesnes werewolf was documented in the Norsk Folkeminnesamling's national sagnkart (legend map) project launched in 2018, which mapped folk legends across Norway'

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