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Uppvakningur

Einnig kallaður: uppvakningar, sending, raised dead
Þjóðtrú og goðsagnirÓdauðurBreytilegtGaldrar

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

Berjast við hann
Uppruni
Icelandic
Ísland
Hvað veldur því
Galdrar
A sorcerer wakes a newly buried corpse and binds it to his service.
Hvernig maður verður einn
A cunning man or woman raises a fresh corpse, wrestles it into submission and licks the matter from its face.
Hvernig hann hreyfist
Breytilegt
Crawls up out of the grave; once mastered it goes where it is sent. Icelandic dead travel only by night.
Greind
Nokkur greind
Veikir blettir
  • '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
vettvangsglósur

Hvað heimildir segja

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

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Hraðaflokkur byggður á lýsingum heimilda (breytilegt), ekki mæling.

Þú, gangandi um 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Þú, skokkandi um 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Uppvakningur um 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Hraustur fullorðinn á spretti um 24 km/h (15 mph)
Fljótur hjólreiðamaður um 37 km/h (23 mph)

Heimildir

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

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Þjóðtrú frá sömu löndum

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

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