I have not had a chance to study animal lore in a Nordic context due to my other scholarly obsessions.  Would someone who is in the ‘know’ please help me with this question? 
First, some studying I was doing brought up this:

From: A Book of Folklore by Sabine Baring-Gould [1913]

“The Norsemen believed that every man had his fylgja, follower, a ( Read more... )