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Illustration of Uppvakningur
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
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Uppvakningur

Wɔfrɛ no bio: uppvakningar, sending, raised dead
Tete nsɛm ne anansesɛmAwufoɔ a wɔnantewƐsesaAbayisɛm

The uppvakningur is the Icelandic corpse raised by sorcery, as opposed to the dead who walk for their own reasons. The magician has to overpower the body as it climbs from the grave, after which it obeys orders and can be sent to harm or kill an enemy. An accusation of raising a dead man lay behind the first burning for sorcery in Iceland. As a corpse with no will of its own working for a living master, it is the nearest European equivalent of the Haitian zombi.12

Fa ko
Mfiase
Icelandic
Iceland
Deɛ ɛde ba
Abayisɛm
A sorcerer wakes a newly buried corpse and binds it to his service.
Sɛnea wobɛdane bi
A cunning man or woman raises a fresh corpse, wrestles it into submission and licks the matter from its face.
Sɛnea ɛkeka ne ho
Ɛsesa
Crawls up out of the grave; once mastered it goes where it is sent. Icelandic dead travel only by night.
Nyansa
Nyansa kakra
Mmerɛwyɛ
  • 'singing it down' with the right verses
  • cutting off the head and burning the body
  • throwing a ball of yarn into the open grave and holding the thread until it swears not to return
nhwehwɛmu nsɛm

Deɛ fibea no ka

1

Distinguished from the afturganga, who comes back of its own will12

2

Once beaten, the corpse asks what its master wants done12

3

A raised corpse dispatched to kill is called a sending12

4

Jón Rögnvaldsson, the first man burned for sorcery in Iceland, was accused of raising a dead man and sending him against a neighbour's farm12

5

Such dead wear out over time; one is described walking on its knees after its feet had rotted away12

6

Folklorist Björk Bjarnadóttir compares Icelandic ghosts to zombies because they are solid12

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)
Uppvakningur 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. We asked a folklorist for all the spooky details - The Reykjavík Grapevine
  2. Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft

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DraugrNorse, 1250GlámrNorse (Icelandic saga), 1300AsvithNorse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga), 1200Deacon of MyrkáIcelandic, 1860HaugbúiNorse, 1250HjaðningavígNorse / Germanic

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