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Deacon of Myrká

E boetse e bitswa: Djákninn á Myrká, Deacon of Dark River
Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohilengE a matha1500 ho isa 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

Di lwantshe
E ngotswe ka lekgetlo la pele
1860
First printed in Konrad Maurer's Isländische Volkssagen der Gegenwart (1860), then in Jón Árnason's collection (1862)
Tshimoloho
Icelandic
Iceland
Se e bakang
Tse ding
A drowned man keeps the appointment he made in life.
Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng
A deacon drowned in the river Hörgá with a head wound a week before Christmas, having promised to fetch his fiancée for the feast.
Kamoo e tsamayang kateng
E a matha
Arrives on horseback and carries the woman off at a gallop to the churchyard.
Bohlale
Bohlale
Dintlha tse fokolang
  • ringing the church bell
  • an exorcist, who finally laid him

E hlahile neng ka lekgetlo la pele?

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

dinoutu tsa patlisiso

Seo mehlodi e se buang

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

Na o ka e phonyoha ka ho matha?

Sehlopha sa lebelo ho ya ka kamoo mehlodi e e hlalosang kateng (e a matha), eseng tekanyo.

Wena, o tsamaya hoo e ka bang 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, o matha butle hoo e ka bang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Motho e moholo ya matla a mathang ka lebelo le leholo hoo e ka bang 24 km/h (15 mph)
Deacon of Myrká hoo e ka bang 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mopalami wa baesekele ya lebelo hoo e ka bang 37 km/h (23 mph)

Mehlodi

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

Ntlha e nngwe le e nngwe leqepheng lena e tswa mehloding ena, e ngotswe ka mantswe a rona. O bone phoso? Re bolelle ho [email protected].

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Mehla e tshwanang: 1500 ho isa 1899

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