
Ifayile No. 026 kwa-446
Þórólfr bægifótr
Ikwabizwa ngokuba: Thorolf Twist-Foot, Thorolf Lame-foot, Thorolf Halt-foot
Þórólfr bægifótr is the great contagious revenant of Eyrbyggja saga. After his death the valley empties: animals go mad, a shepherd is found with every bone broken, and his victims join his company. His son Arnkel reburies the corpse on a hillside behind a high wall, and it is later burned. The pattern of an undecayed corpse, spreading death and escalating disposal anticipates the vampire panics of five centuries later.12
Yabhalwa okokuqala
1260
Eyrbyggja saga, written in the mid- or late 13th centuryImvelaphi
Norse (Icelandic saga)
IIcelandOko kuyibangelayo
Okunye
A violent old man will not lie still after death; the saga offers no further explanation.Indlela umntu aba yiyo ngayo
He dies sitting upright in his seat, a posture the sagas treat as a sign that the dead will walk.
Indlela ehamba ngayo
Iyahluka
Leaves his cairn and ravages the district around Þórsnes for most of a year.Ubukrelekrele
Ubukrelekrele obuthile
Iindawo ezibuthathaka
- reburial on a remote hillside behind a high stone wall
- burning the body
Yavela nini okokuqala?
Eyrbyggja saga, written in the mid- or late 13th century
amanqaku ophando
Oko kuthethwa yimithombo
Ungayigqitha ngokubaleka?
Udidi lwesantya ngokwendlela imithombo eyichaza ngayo (iyahluka), asingomlinganiselo.
Wena, uhamba malunga ne-5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Wena, ujoga malunga ne-10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Þórólfr bægifótr malunga ne-10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Umntu omdala osempilweni ebaleka ngamandla malunga ne-24 km/h (15 mph)
Umkhweli webhayisikile okhawulezayo malunga ne-37 km/h (23 mph)
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