“The wolfish aspect of the Greek god Apollo seems to connect him both to death and to fertilizing and live-giving powers, in consonance with the other doubled or contradictory aspects of this god, who surely resembles another god with wolf names and companions, the Norse Óðinn”
“The wolf-image ordinarily would be attached to the aggressive second function warrior but what might be called wolf-kings are also seen: Lykos or 'wolf' was a king-name in ancient Thebes; Sigmund and his son (in Volsunga saga) took their lycanthropic posture and powers from wolves' skins once worn by two shape-changing princes (konungasynir, Vols. c8) while the violent war-king of Norway, Harald lúfa, himself showing a near-berserk image, had his own berserker band of Wolfskins, Úlfhèðnar (Heimskringla 19).”
-- Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (1997), page 647 by J.P. Mallory and Douglas Adams
