
Sea draug
In post-medieval Norway the word draug narrowed from any walking corpse to the dead of the sea. The sea draug is the body of a drowned fisherman, headless or seaweed-headed, crewing half a boat and announcing the death of anyone who sees it. A well-known northern legend has it chased through a churchyard by the properly buried dead. It shows how the saga revenant survived by attaching itself to the commonest violent death of a fishing society.1
- the churchyard dead, who in one legend drive it off with coffin boards and seaweed
E hlahile neng ka lekgetlo la pele?
Hans Egede mentions 'the Drow' (drauen) as a sea spectre in a book published in 1741
Seo mehlodi e se buang
Wears a fisherman's leather or oilskin clothing and has a bundle of seaweed where its head should be1
Seeing it, or its half-boat, foretells drowning1
The belief is strongest in northern Norway, where fishing deaths were common1
The coat of arms of Bø in Nordland shows its half-boat1
Households left out food and 'draug-beer' at Christmas for it and other visitors1
Na o ka e phonyoha ka ho matha?
Sehlopha sa lebelo ho ya ka kamoo mehlodi e e hlalosang kateng (e a fapana), eseng tekanyo.
Mehlodi
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].