Þráinn

Wɔfrɛ no bio: Thrain, Thráinn

Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewƐkeka ne ho kakraa biAbayisɛmMfinimfini Mmerɛ

Þráinn is the barrow-dwelling undead king of Hrómundar saga Gripssonar. Once a ruler in Gaul, he sits in his mound with the sword Mistilteinn until Hrómundr climbs in, wrestles him and burns the body. The tale was already being told as entertainment in 12th-century Iceland, which makes it one of the oldest datable draugr fights in the record.1 2

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1119

A saga of Hrómundr was reportedly recited at a wedding at Reykjahólar in 1119; the story survives through the 14th-century Griplur rímur and later prose

Mfiase

Norse (Icelandic legendary saga)

Iceland

Deɛ ɛde ba

Abayisɛm

A sorcerer-king who took his powers with him into the barrow.

Sɛnea wobɛdane bi

A king of Valland (Gaul) turned witch-king, entombed in a barrow.

Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho

Ɛkeka ne ho kakraa bi

Remains in his barrow and grapples with the hero who breaks in.

Nyansa

Nyansafoɔ

Mmerɛwyɛ

being out-wrestled
burning the body

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Tete wiase Mfinimfini Mmerɛ 1500 kɔsi 1899 1900 kɔsi 1967 1968 kɔsi 1999 2000 kɔsi 2009 2010 kɔsi ɛnnɛ

1119

A saga of Hrómundr was reportedly recited at a wedding at Reykjahólar in 1119; the story survives through the 14th-century Griplur rímur and later prose

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