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Þórólfr bægifótr
Wɔfrɛ no bio: Thorolf Twist-Foot, Thorolf Lame-foot, Thorolf Halt-foot
Þórólfr bægifótr is the great contagious revenant of Eyrbyggja saga. After his death the valley empties: animals go mad, a shepherd is found with every bone broken, and his victims join his company. His son Arnkel reburies the corpse on a hillside behind a high wall, and it is later burned. The pattern of an undecayed corpse, spreading death and escalating disposal anticipates the vampire panics of five centuries later.12
Wɔdii kan kyerɛw
1260
Eyrbyggja saga, written in the mid- or late 13th centuryMfiase
Norse (Icelandic saga)
IcelandDeɛ ɛde ba
Ɛfoforɔ
A violent old man will not lie still after death; the saga offers no further explanation.Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
He dies sitting upright in his seat, a posture the sagas treat as a sign that the dead will walk.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛsesa
Leaves his cairn and ravages the district around Þórsnes for most of a year.Nyansa
Nyansa kakra
Mmerɛwyɛ
- reburial on a remote hillside behind a high stone wall
- burning the body
Ɛberɛ bɛn na ɛdii kan puee?
Eyrbyggja saga, written in the mid- or late 13th century
nhwehwɛmu nsɛm
Deɛ fibea no ka
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)
Þórólfr bægifótr 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)
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