Trevor Collins

So this saga was written in the 13th century, though it's alleged that there are older oral folktales of this.

So if it had an oral tradition before this, it wasn't written down until around the 13th century.

So it could be even older, all I'm saying.

Now, in this story, these skins had the power to transform people into wolves for 10 days once you wore them.

This is something that you could not undo.

You were basically stuck in a wolf form for those 10 days, and after 10 days happened, the wolf pelts would be able to be taken off.

When the father and the son put these skins on, they then experienced this.

They shapeshifted into wolves, and then they entered one of the first moments we're actually seeing of this, the bloodlust.

The pair of them embarked on a killing spree in the forest.

So now we're starting to see the more modern bloodlust kind of losing control element coming in.

And eventually the bloodlust became so great, maybe they ran out of people or animals to attack, that the father then turned and attacked the son, giving him a near fatal wound.

The son eventually did survive, but only because a raven had flown by and dropped off a leaf with healing powers that the father could then use to help heal this wound.

And after they returned to their human forms, they quickly burned these pelts, realizing that this was a mistake.

Whatever it is, we lose control and it's dangerous.

We don't want this to befall anybody else.

It's a cursed object.

This story focuses on the thin kind of layer between man and beast.

It alludes to the wolf warrior that you astutely pointed out in Norse mythology and in history.

These were men who donned the pelts of wolves and took on a similar unbridled frenzy during their fights.

But with this nod to history, I want to pivot from references to werewolves in literature to references made in laws, some real events that were then shaped by stories that preceded them,