The Three Forms of Transformation

In the Vance de la saga there is a curious account of three Finns who were shut up in a hut for three nights, and ordered by Ingamund a Norwegian chief to visit Iceland. Their bodies became rigid, and they sent their souls the errand; but it does not relate whether these Finns projected their souls into the bodies of birds or beasts. The third manner of transformation mentioned was that which happened when an individual's eyes were bewitched so that they saw him only under a certain form. Of this there are several examples in the sagas, but I will translate the most curious, which is that of odd, Cottla's son, in the Biggia