re: wolvish outlaws

From: David Dunham <dunham_at_pensee.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 20:08:31 -0800


Duncan Rowlands wrote

> Nick - the origin of the term Wolf's Head is the fact that outlaws had a
> bounty on their head, as did every wolf

This could be, but in the novel "Rhinegold," the term "warg" is used for both wolf and outlaw. (As I recall the author, Stefan Grundy, is a PhD candidate in Old Germanic, so if he says it's the same word, I believe it.)

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