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Deacon of Myrká

Maqaa biraa: Djákninn á Myrká, Deacon of Dark River
Seenaa aadaa fi afoolaDu'aa ka'eNi fiiga1500 hanga 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

Lolsiisi
Yeroo jalqabaaf kan galmeeffame
1860
First printed in Konrad Maurer's Isländische Volkssagen der Gegenwart (1860), then in Jón Árnason's collection (1862)
Ka'umsa
Icelandic
Aayislaand
Maaltu isa fida
Kan biroo
A drowned man keeps the appointment he made in life.
Akkamitti isa taata
A deacon drowned in the river Hörgá with a head wound a week before Christmas, having promised to fetch his fiancée for the feast.
Akkamitti sochoo'a
Ni fiiga
Arrives on horseback and carries the woman off at a gallop to the churchyard.
Beekumsa
Qaroo
Bakkeewwan laafoo
  • ringing the church bell
  • an exorcist, who finally laid him

Yoom jalqaba mul'ate?

Addunyaa duriiJaarraa Gidduugaleessaa1500 hanga 18991900 hanga 19671968 hanga 19992000 hanga 20092010 hanga har'aa1860

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

yaadannoo dirree

Maddoonni maal jedhu

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

Fiigdee isa jalaa ba'uu dandeessaa?

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

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

Maddoota

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

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Seenaa aadaa biyyoota wal fakkaatan irraa

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

Bara wal fakkaataa: 1500 hanga 1899

JiangshiChinese, 1789Zombi (Haitian)Haitian (Vodou folklore), 1750StrigoiRomanian, 1714Vampir (South Slavic)South Slavic (Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Bosnian), 1725AbhartachIrish, 1870Arnold PaoleSerbian, 1732
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