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Draugr

Wɔfrɛ no bio: draugur, draug, dreygur, drög, aptrgangr, afturganga

The draugr is the corporeal revenant of Old Norse literature: a dead man who leaves, or defends, his grave in his own bloated, discoloured body. The Icelandic sagas show it killing shepherds and livestock, emptying whole districts and passing its condition on to its victims. Because ordinary weapons often fail, heroes have to wrestle it down, behead it and burn it to ash. With its physical decay, contagion and need for total destruction of the body, it is the closest medieval European ancestor of the modern zombie.12

Fa ko
Wɔdii kan kyerɛw
1250
Icelandic sagas written down in the 13th and 14th centuries
Mfiase
Norse
Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Faroe Supɔ
Deɛ ɛde ba
Ɛfoforɔ
The sagas give no single mechanism: malicious, greedy or ill-natured people simply refuse to stay dead, and some victims of a haunting rise in their turn.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
A hard, avaricious or malevolent person dies and walks again; a corpse found sitting upright is a warning sign, and people killed by a draugr may rise too.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛsesa
Most stay close to their burial mounds, but some range across farmsteads at night; they can also sink into the earth or pass through rock.
Nyansa
Nyansafoɔ
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • decapitation
  • burning the body and scattering the ashes at sea
  • wrestling it back into the grave
  • a formal 'door-court' judgment followed by holy water (Eyrbyggja saga)
  • iron wounds it but does not stop it

Ɛberɛ bɛn na ɛdii kan puee?

Icelandic sagas written down in the 13th and 14th centuries

nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

Scholars stress that it is a walking corpse, not an immaterial ghost12

2

Saga texts describe the bodies as hel-blár ('death-blue') or nár-fölr ('corpse-pale') and stinking of decay12

3

Can swell to huge size, change shape, bring darkness by day and enter dreams12

4

Kills by crushing, clawing and breaking bones, and rides livestock to death12

5

Icelanders took precautions with the dead: open scissors on the chest, toes tied together, needles in the soles12

6

The word may derive from a Proto-Germanic root meaning 'delusion' or 'deception'12

Wobɛtumi atu mmirika aboro no?

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

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

Fibea

  1. Draugr - Wikipedia
  2. Viking zombies and how to kill them - University of Liverpool News

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