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Deacon of Myrká

Akpọkwa ya: Djákninn á Myrká, Deacon of Dark River

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

Mee ha lụọ ọgụ
Mgbe e dere ya nke mbụ
1860
First printed in Konrad Maurer's Isländische Volkssagen der Gegenwart (1860), then in Jón Árnason's collection (1862)
Mmalite
Icelandic
Iceland
Ihe na-akpata ya
Ndị ọzọ
A drowned man keeps the appointment he made in life.
Otu i si abụrụ otu
A deacon drowned in the river Hörgá with a head wound a week before Christmas, having promised to fetch his fiancée for the feast.
Otu o si agagharị
Na-agba ọsọ
Arrives on horseback and carries the woman off at a gallop to the churchyard.
Ọgụgụ isi
Nwere ọgụgụ isi
Ebe adịghị ike
  • ringing the church bell
  • an exorcist, who finally laid him

Kedu mgbe ọ pụtara nke mbụ?

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

ndetu ubi

Ihe isi mmalite na-ekwu

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

Ị ga-agba ya ọsọ?

Klas ọsọ site n'otu isi mmalite si kọwaa (na-agba ọsọ), ọ bụghị nha.

Gị, na-eje ije ihe dị ka 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Gị, na-agba ọsọ ntakịrị ihe dị ka 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Okenye siri ike na-agba ọsọ ihe dị ka 24 km/h (15 mph)
Deacon of Myrká ihe dị ka 24 km/h (15 mph)
Onye na-agba ịnyịnya ígwè ọsọ ihe dị ka 37 km/h (23 mph)

Isi mmalite

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

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