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Welsh revenant of Hereford
Ñu ngi koy wooye itam: William Laudun's revenant, Walter Map's Welshman
Walter Map tells of a dead Welshman who walked nightly near Hereford and summoned his neighbours to death by name. The bishop's prescribed cure of holy water and a cut neck failed, and the haunting ended only when the knight William Laudun pursued the corpse to its grave and beheaded it. The name-calling motif turns up again centuries later in the Greek vrykolakas. Map also records gentler cases settled by a cross on the grave or priestly absolution.12
Jëkk a bindu
1185
Walter Map, De nugis curialium, written about 1181-1192Cosaan
Medieval English / Welsh borders
ÀngalteerLan moo ko waral
Dee wu bon walla suul gu baaxul
Map says the man died 'unchristianly'.Naka ngay doone benn
A Welshman who died without a Christian end.
Naka lay yëngoo
Dafay soppiku
Walks back from his grave into the village each night and calls residents by name.Xel
Am xel
Fi mu néewe doole
- holy water on the body and grave (tried first, and failed)
- splitting the head from the neck with a sword
Kañ la jëkk a feeñ?
Walter Map, De nugis curialium, written about 1181-1192
notu gëstu
Li sours yi wax
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)
Welsh revenant of Hereford 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)
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