Þráinn

E boetse e bitswa: Thrain, Thráinn

Ditshomo le dinonwaneBafu ba tsohilengE batla e sa sisinyeheBoloiMehla e Bohareng

Þráinn is the barrow-dwelling undead king of Hrómundar saga Gripssonar. Once a ruler in Gaul, he sits in his mound with the sword Mistilteinn until Hrómundr climbs in, wrestles him and burns the body. The tale was already being told as entertainment in 12th-century Iceland, which makes it one of the oldest datable draugr fights in the record.1 2

Di lwantshe

E ngotswe ka lekgetlo la pele

1119

A saga of Hrómundr was reportedly recited at a wedding at Reykjahólar in 1119; the story survives through the 14th-century Griplur rímur and later prose

Tshimoloho

Norse (Icelandic legendary saga)

Iceland

Se e bakang

Boloi

A sorcerer-king who took his powers with him into the barrow.

Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng

A king of Valland (Gaul) turned witch-king, entombed in a barrow.

Kamoo e tsamayang kateng

E batla e sa sisinyehe

Remains in his barrow and grapples with the hero who breaks in.

Bohlale

Dintlha tse fokolang

being out-wrestled
burning the body

E hlahile neng ka lekgetlo la pele?

Lefatshe la boholoholo Mehla e Bohareng 1500 ho isa 1899 1900 ho isa 1967 1968 ho isa 1999 2000 ho isa 2009 2010 ho fihlela kajeno

1119

A saga of Hrómundr was reportedly recited at a wedding at Reykjahólar in 1119; the story survives through the 14th-century Griplur rímur and later prose

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