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Deacon of Myrká

Yitwa kandi: 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

Bashyire ku murwano
Yanditswe bwa mbere
1860
First printed in Konrad Maurer's Isländische Volkssagen der Gegenwart (1860), then in Jón Árnason's collection (1862)
Inkomoko
Icelandic
Isilande
Icyayiteye
Ibindi
A drowned man keeps the appointment he made in life.
Uko umuntu ahinduka zombi
A deacon drowned in the river Hörgá with a head wound a week before Christmas, having promised to fetch his fiancée for the feast.
Uko igenda
Iriruka
Arrives on horseback and carries the woman off at a gallop to the churchyard.
Ubwenge
Ifite ubwenge
Intege nke
  • ringing the church bell
  • an exorcist, who finally laid him

Yagaragaye bwa mbere ryari?

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

inyandiko zo ku kibuga

Ibyo amasoko avuga

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

Wayisiga wiruka?

Icyiciro cy'umuvuduko gishingiye ku buryo amasoko ayisobanura (iriruka), si igipimo.

Wowe, ugenda n'amaguru nka km/h 5
Wowe, wiruka buhoro nka km/h 10
Umuntu mukuru ufite imbaraga wiruka cyane nka km/h 24
Deacon of Myrká nka km/h 24
Umunyonzi wihuta nka km/h 37

Amasoko

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

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