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Draugr

Gape e bidiwa: draugur, draug, dreygur, drög, aptrgangr, afturganga
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengGo a farologanaMotlha wa Bogare

The draugr is the corporeal revenant of Old Norse literature: a dead man who leaves, or defends, his grave in his own bloated, discoloured body. The Icelandic sagas show it killing shepherds and livestock, emptying whole districts and passing its condition on to its victims. Because ordinary weapons often fail, heroes have to wrestle it down, behead it and burn it to ash. With its physical decay, contagion and need for total destruction of the body, it is the closest medieval European ancestor of the modern zombie.12

Di lwantshe
E kwadilwe la ntlha
1250
Icelandic sagas written down in the 13th and 14th centuries
Tshimologo
Norse
Iceland, Norway, Swidene, Ditlhaketlhake tsa Faroe
Se se e bakang
Tse dingwe
The sagas give no single mechanism: malicious, greedy or ill-natured people simply refuse to stay dead, and some victims of a haunting rise in their turn.
O fetoga yone jang
A hard, avaricious or malevolent person dies and walks again; a corpse found sitting upright is a warning sign, and people killed by a draugr may rise too.
E tsamaya jang
Go a farologana
Most stay close to their burial mounds, but some range across farmsteads at night; they can also sink into the earth or pass through rock.
Botlhale
E botlhale
Bokoa
  • decapitation
  • burning the body and scattering the ashes at sea
  • wrestling it back into the grave
  • a formal 'door-court' judgment followed by holy water (Eyrbyggja saga)
  • iron wounds it but does not stop it
dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

1

Scholars stress that it is a walking corpse, not an immaterial ghost12

2

Saga texts describe the bodies as hel-blár ('death-blue') or nár-fölr ('corpse-pale') and stinking of decay12

3

Can swell to huge size, change shape, bring darkness by day and enter dreams12

4

Kills by crushing, clawing and breaking bones, and rides livestock to death12

5

Icelanders took precautions with the dead: open scissors on the chest, toes tied together, needles in the soles12

6

The word may derive from a Proto-Germanic root meaning 'delusion' or 'deception'12

A o ka e siela kgakala?

Setlhopha sa bonako go ya ka fa metswedi e e tlhalosang ka teng (go a farologana), e seng tekanyo.

Wena, o tsamaya mo e ka nnang 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, o taboga ka iketlo mo e ka nnang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Draugr mo e ka nnang 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Motho yo mogolo yo o itekanetseng a siana thata mo e ka nnang 24 km/h (15 mph)
Mopalami wa baesekele yo o bonako mo e ka nnang 37 km/h (23 mph)

Metswedi

  1. Draugr - Wikipedia
  2. Viking zombies and how to kill them - University of Liverpool News

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