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Illustration of Uppvakningur
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
Fayl No. 441 diga 446

Uppvakningur

Wi'aama fahin: uppvakningar, sending, raised dead
Haala e tuugnorgalMaayɓe yaaɗooɓeIna feereSihiru

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

Haɓdu e mo
Ƴiiɗal
Icelandic
Islaand
Ko waɗi ɗum
Sihiru
A sorcerer wakes a newly buried corpse and binds it to his service.
No a wonata gooto
A cunning man or woman raises a fresh corpse, wrestles it into submission and licks the matter from its face.
No ɗum yaaɗi
Ina feere
Crawls up out of the grave; once mastered it goes where it is sent. Icelandic dead travel only by night.
Hakkiilo
Woodi seyo hakkiilo
Ñaawooje
  • '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
winndaa ɗo nokku

Ko sorsi ɗin mbi'i

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

A waawan daanaade mo?

Ngesa yaawngo ko sorsi ɗin kaalata (ina feere), wanaa ko hakkundirdaa.

An, a yaaɗi ɗon 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
An, a ɗawi gaynaako ɗon 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Uppvakningur ɗon 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Gooto bote mo tiiɗi, wa'i ko yaawɗo ɗon 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mbaaleejo ngaɗa yaawɗo ɗon 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sorsi

  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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