“Persistent Motifs of Cursing from Old Norse Literature in Buslubœn”

"Buslubœn" is a fictional charm included in a relatively late Icelandic text, "Bósa saga", that can be ranged within the 'fornaldarsögur', as scholars named a group of fable-like narratives set in a distant past that enjoyed vast popularity in medieval Iceland. This study shows that a number of features in "Buslubœn" could have been inspired by long-lost actual magic formulas from oral tradition, preserving interesting traces of heathen concepts even centuries after Iceland had been converted.