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Asvith

Tamén chamado: Aswid, Asuithus, Ásviðr, Aran
Folclore e mitoMorto viventeVaríaIdade Media

The story of Asmund and Asvith is a medieval Scandinavian tale of being walled up with a flesh-eating corpse. Two sworn friends agree not to be parted by death; the survivor enters the tomb and finds that the dead man wakes each night and eats whatever is alive. He ends it by cutting off the head and pinning the body. It is among the earliest European narratives in which a reanimated corpse is explicitly driven by hunger for flesh.12

Á batalla!
Primeiro rexistro
1200
Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum, written around 1200; a parallel in the 14th-century saga of Egil One-Hand and Asmund Berserker-Slayer
Orixe
Norse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga)
Dinamarca, Suecia, Islandia
Que o causa
Nunca se explica
Asmund says only that his friend's spirit came back from the underworld into the body.
Como te convertes nun
A dead man entombed with his horse and dog, and with his living sworn friend beside him.
Como se move
Varía
Rises at night inside the sealed tomb and attacks with tooth and nail.
Intelixencia
Algo de intelixencia
Puntos débiles
  • beheading with a sword
  • a stake through the body (Saxo)
  • burning to ashes (saga version)

Cando apareceu por primeira vez?

Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum, written around 1200; a parallel in the 14th-century saga of Egil One-Hand and Asmund Berserker-Slayer

notas de campo

O que din as fontes

1

Asmund had himself buried alive with his friend out of loyalty12

2

The corpse ate the horse first, then the dog, then turned on Asmund12

3

It slashed his cheek and tore off his left ear12

4

Swedish treasure hunters who broke into the tomb fled, taking the gore-covered Asmund for the dead man12

5

In the Icelandic version the dead man is called Aran and eats a hawk, a hound and a horse over three nights12

Poderías correr máis ca el?

Clase de velocidade segundo como o describen as fontes (varía), non unha medición.

Ti, camiñando uns 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ti, trotando uns 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Asvith uns 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Un adulto en forma a toda velocidade uns 24 km/h (15 mph)
Un ciclista rápido uns 37 km/h (23 mph)

Fontes

  1. Buried Alive with an Undead Corpse: A Medieval Tale - Medievalists.net
  2. Draugr - Wikipedia

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