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Deacon of Myrká

Wɔfrɛ no bio: Djákninn á Myrká, Deacon of Dark River
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewƐtu mmirika1500 kɔsi 1899

The Deacon of Myrká is Iceland's best-known tale of the returning dead. A drowned clergyman rides out of his grave on Christmas Eve to collect the woman he had promised to bring to the feast, and tries to drag her into the grave with him. It is a local form of the international 'dead bridegroom' story, but the deacon is a solid corpse with a smashed skull. The tale remains a fixture of Icelandic art and literature.1

Fa ko
Wɔdii kan kyerɛw
1860
First printed in Konrad Maurer's Isländische Volkssagen der Gegenwart (1860), then in Jón Árnason's collection (1862)
Mfiase
Icelandic
Iceland
Deɛ ɛde ba
Ɛfoforɔ
A drowned man keeps the appointment he made in life.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
A deacon drowned in the river Hörgá with a head wound a week before Christmas, having promised to fetch his fiancée for the feast.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛtu mmirika
Arrives on horseback and carries the woman off at a gallop to the churchyard.
Nyansa
Nyansafoɔ
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • ringing the church bell
  • an exorcist, who finally laid him

Ɛberɛ bɛn na ɛdii kan puee?

Tete wiaseMfinimfini Mmerɛ1500 kɔsi 18991900 kɔsi 19671968 kɔsi 19992000 kɔsi 20092010 kɔsi ɛnnɛ1860

First printed in Konrad Maurer's Isländische Volkssagen der Gegenwart (1860), then in Jón Árnason's collection (1862)

nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

His fiancée Guðrún had not heard that he was dead1

2

As they ride, his hat tips forward and she sees the bare skull through the wound1

3

He calls her 'Garún' because the Icelandic dead cannot pronounce Guð, 'God'1

4

At the open grave he seizes only the empty sleeve of her coat1

5

She saves herself by hauling on the bell rope until people come1

Wobɛtumi atu mmirika aboro no?

Ahoɔhare kuo a efi sɛnea fibea kyerɛkyerɛ mu (ɛtu mmirika), ɛnyɛ susudua.

Wo, nantew bɛyɛ 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wo, mmirika brɛoo bɛyɛ 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ɔpanin a ne ho yɛ den a ɔtu mmirika denden bɛyɛ 24 km/h (15 mph)
Deacon of Myrká bɛyɛ 24 km/h (15 mph)
Sakrekafoɔ a ɔyɛ ntɛm bɛyɛ 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fibea

  1. Dj%C3%A1kninn %C3%A1 Myrk%C3%A1 - Wikipedia

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DraugrNorse, 1250GlámrNorse (Icelandic saga), 1300AsvithNorse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga), 1200HaugbúiNorse, 1250HjaðningavígNorse / GermanicHrapprNorse (Icelandic saga), 1245

Berɛ koro: 1500 kɔsi 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732
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