Völsa þáttr
NORSE SHORT STORY
Volsa thattr; Voelsa thattr; Völsi; Vǫlsi; Vǫlsa þáttr
Vǫlsa þáttr is a short story which is only extant in the Flateyjarbók codex, where it is found in a chapter of Óláfs saga helga. It is probably from the fourteenth century but takes place in 1029, when Scandinavia was still largely pagan, and it appears to preserve traditions of a pagan phallos cult, the vǫlsi (see also blót).