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Asvith

Maqaa biraa: Aswid, Asuithus, Ásviðr, Aran

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

Lolsiisi
Yeroo jalqabaaf kan galmeeffame
1200
Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum, written around 1200; a parallel in the 14th-century saga of Egil One-Hand and Asmund Berserker-Slayer
Ka'umsa
Norse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga)
Denmaark, Siwiidin, Aayislaand
Maaltu isa fida
Gonkumaa hin ibsamne
Asmund says only that his friend's spirit came back from the underworld into the body.
Akkamitti isa taata
A dead man entombed with his horse and dog, and with his living sworn friend beside him.
Akkamitti sochoo'a
Garagara
Rises at night inside the sealed tomb and attacks with tooth and nail.
Beekumsa
Beekumsa muraasa
Bakkeewwan laafoo
  • beheading with a sword
  • a stake through the body (Saxo)
  • burning to ashes (saga version)

Yoom jalqaba mul'ate?

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

yaadannoo dirree

Maddoonni maal jedhu

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

Fiigdee isa jalaa ba'uu dandeessaa?

Sadarkaa saffisaa akkaataa maddoonni itti ibsan irraa (garagara), safara miti.

Ati, deemaa gara 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ati, suuta fiigaa gara 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Asvith gara 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Ga'eessa qaamaan jabaa kan ariitiin fiigu gara 24 km/h (15 mph)
Saayikilii oofaa ariifataa gara 37 km/h (23 mph)

Maddoota

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

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