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Deacon of Myrká

Tamén chamado: Djákninn á Myrká, Deacon of Dark River
Folclore e mitoMorto viventeCorreDe 1500 a 1899

The Deacon of Myrká is Iceland's best-known tale of the returning dead. A drowned clergyman rides out of his grave on Christmas Eve to collect the woman he had promised to bring to the feast, and tries to drag her into the grave with him. It is a local form of the international 'dead bridegroom' story, but the deacon is a solid corpse with a smashed skull. The tale remains a fixture of Icelandic art and literature.1

Á batalla!
Primeiro rexistro
1860
First printed in Konrad Maurer's Isländische Volkssagen der Gegenwart (1860), then in Jón Árnason's collection (1862)
Orixe
Icelandic
Islandia
Que o causa
Outro
A drowned man keeps the appointment he made in life.
Como te convertes nun
A deacon drowned in the river Hörgá with a head wound a week before Christmas, having promised to fetch his fiancée for the feast.
Como se move
Corre
Arrives on horseback and carries the woman off at a gallop to the churchyard.
Intelixencia
Listo
Puntos débiles
  • ringing the church bell
  • an exorcist, who finally laid him

Cando apareceu por primeira vez?

Mundo antigoIdade MediaDe 1500 a 1899De 1900 a 1967De 1968 a 1999De 2000 a 2009De 2010 ata hoxe1860

First printed in Konrad Maurer's Isländische Volkssagen der Gegenwart (1860), then in Jón Árnason's collection (1862)

notas de campo

O que din as fontes

1

His fiancée Guðrún had not heard that he was dead1

2

As they ride, his hat tips forward and she sees the bare skull through the wound1

3

He calls her 'Garún' because the Icelandic dead cannot pronounce Guð, 'God'1

4

At the open grave he seizes only the empty sleeve of her coat1

5

She saves herself by hauling on the bell rope until people come1

Poderías correr máis ca el?

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

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

Fontes

  1. Dj%C3%A1kninn %C3%A1 Myrk%C3%A1 - Wikipedia

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Folclore das mesmas terras

DraugrNorse, 1250GlámrNorse (Icelandic saga), 1300AsvithNorse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga), 1200HaugbúiNorse, 1250HjaðningavígNorse / GermanicHrapprNorse (Icelandic saga), 1245

Mesma época: De 1500 a 1899

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