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Byland Abbey revenants

Ñu ngi koy wooye itam: James Tankerlay, Robert of Boltby, Byland ghost stories
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The Byland stories are a set of local Yorkshire accounts of the returning dead, jotted into a monastic manuscript around 1400. Several concern actual corpses that leave their graves: a dead rector who walks across the moor to blind his former concubine, and a man caught bodily in a churchyard by his neighbours. Unlike the 12th-century cases, most are settled by absolution and masses rather than by destroying the body. They show the walking corpse giving way to the purgatorial ghost, with both still present in the same notebook.12

Xeexal ko
Jëkk a bindu
1400
Twelve stories added about 1400 to a Byland Abbey manuscript (British Library Royal MS 15 A XX)
Cosaan
Medieval English
Àngalteer
Lan moo ko waral
Dee wu bon walla suul gu baaxul
The dead return because of unconfessed sins, excommunication or debts they could not settle before death.
Naka ngay doone benn
People who died with a sin or obligation unresolved.
Naka lay yëngoo
Dafay soppiku
Some walk from the grave in their own bodies; others appear as a horse, dog, goat, raven or a rolling object.
Xel
Am na tuuti xel
Fi mu néewe doole
  • priestly conjuration and absolution
  • masses said for the dead
  • restitution of stolen goods
  • throwing the coffin into a lake (Tankerlay)

Kañ la jëkk a feeñ?

Twelve stories added about 1400 to a Byland Abbey manuscript (British Library Royal MS 15 A XX)

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Li sours yi wax

1

Written down by a monk of Byland in Yorkshire on blank leaves of an older book12

2

Edited in Latin by the ghost-story writer M. R. James in 192212

3

James Tankerlay, a former rector, walked at night and put out his mistress's eye; his body was dug up and thrown into Gormire12

4

Robert of Boltby was seized in the churchyard by village youths and absolved by the priest12

5

One spirit speaks from its bowels rather than with its tongue12

Ndax mën nga ko raw ci daw?

Gaawaay bi jóge ci ni sours yi ko melale (dafay soppiku), du natt.

Yow, ci dox lu tollu ci 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Yow, ci daw ndànk lu tollu ci 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Byland Abbey revenants lu tollu ci 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Mag bu am doole buy daw lu gaaw lool lu tollu ci 24 km/h (15 mph)
Ku gaaw ci welo lu tollu ci 37 km/h (23 mph)

Sours yi

  1. Ghost Stories from Byland Abbey - Medieval Histories
  2. Zombies and Shapechangers in Medieval Yorkshire - Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

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