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Deacon of Myrká

Imadziwikanso kuti: 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

Amenyane!
Inalembedwa koyamba
1860
First printed in Konrad Maurer's Isländische Volkssagen der Gegenwart (1860), then in Jón Árnason's collection (1862)
Kochokera
Icelandic
Iceland
Chimayambitsa
Zina
A drowned man keeps the appointment he made in life.
Momwe umasandukira zombie
A deacon drowned in the river Hörgá with a head wound a week before Christmas, having promised to fetch his fiancée for the feast.
Momwe imayendera
Imathamanga
Arrives on horseback and carries the woman off at a gallop to the churchyard.
Nzeru
Wochenjera
Malo ofooka
  • ringing the church bell
  • an exorcist, who finally laid him

Inaoneka liti koyamba?

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

zolemba za kumunda

Zimene magwero akunena

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

Ukanatha kuithawa?

Gulu la liwiro malinga ndi momwe magwero amaifotokozera (imathamanga), osati muyeso.

Iwe, ukuyenda pafupifupi 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Iwe, ukuthamanga pang'onopang'ono pafupifupi 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Munthu wamkulu wamphamvu akuthamanga kwambiri pafupifupi 24 km/h (15 mph)
Deacon of Myrká pafupifupi 24 km/h (15 mph)
Woyendetsa njinga wothamanga pafupifupi 37 km/h (23 mph)

Magwero

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

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