Þráinn

Ñu ngi koy wooye itam: Thrain, Thráinn

Léeb ak cosaanNéew yu dundaatYënguwul lu dul tuutiLiggéeyu dëmmDiggu jamono

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

Xeexal ko

Jëkk a bindu

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

Cosaan

Norse (Icelandic legendary saga)

Islaand

Lan moo ko waral

Liggéeyu dëmm

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

Naka ngay doone benn

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

Naka lay yëngoo

Yënguwul lu dul tuuti

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

Xel

Am xel

Fi mu néewe doole

being out-wrestled
burning the body

Kañ la jëkk a feeñ?

Àddina su yàgg Diggu jamono 1500 ba 1899 1900 ba 1967 1968 ba 1999 2000 ba 2009 2010 ba tey

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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