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Illustration of Uppvakningur
Original AI-made illustration based on the descriptions in the sources. Not an official design.
Kayit No. 441 ci 446

Uppvakningur

Ñu ngi koy wooye itam: uppvakningar, sending, raised dead
Léeb ak cosaanNéew yu dundaatDafay soppikuLiggéeyu dëmm

The uppvakningur is the Icelandic corpse raised by sorcery, as opposed to the dead who walk for their own reasons. The magician has to overpower the body as it climbs from the grave, after which it obeys orders and can be sent to harm or kill an enemy. An accusation of raising a dead man lay behind the first burning for sorcery in Iceland. As a corpse with no will of its own working for a living master, it is the nearest European equivalent of the Haitian zombi.12

Xeexal ko
Cosaan
Icelandic
Islaand
Lan moo ko waral
Liggéeyu dëmm
A sorcerer wakes a newly buried corpse and binds it to his service.
Naka ngay doone benn
A cunning man or woman raises a fresh corpse, wrestles it into submission and licks the matter from its face.
Naka lay yëngoo
Dafay soppiku
Crawls up out of the grave; once mastered it goes where it is sent. Icelandic dead travel only by night.
Xel
Am na tuuti xel
Fi mu néewe doole
  • 'singing it down' with the right verses
  • cutting off the head and burning the body
  • throwing a ball of yarn into the open grave and holding the thread until it swears not to return
notu gëstu

Li sours yi wax

1

Distinguished from the afturganga, who comes back of its own will12

2

Once beaten, the corpse asks what its master wants done12

3

A raised corpse dispatched to kill is called a sending12

4

Jón Rögnvaldsson, the first man burned for sorcery in Iceland, was accused of raising a dead man and sending him against a neighbour's farm12

5

Such dead wear out over time; one is described walking on its knees after its feet had rotted away12

6

Folklorist Björk Bjarnadóttir compares Icelandic ghosts to zombies because they are solid12

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)
Uppvakningur 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. We asked a folklorist for all the spooky details - The Reykjavík Grapevine
  2. Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft

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