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Illustration of Uppvakningur
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Uppvakningur

A tún ń pè é ní: uppvakningar, sending, raised dead
Ìtàn àtẹnudẹ́nu àti àròsọÒkúÓ yàtọ̀Oṣó

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

Bá a jà
Orírun
Icelandic
Iceland
Ohun tó fà á
Oṣó
A sorcerer wakes a newly buried corpse and binds it to his service.
Bí o ṣe di ọ̀kan
A cunning man or woman raises a fresh corpse, wrestles it into submission and licks the matter from its face.
Bí ó ṣe ń rìn
Ó yàtọ̀
Crawls up out of the grave; once mastered it goes where it is sent. Icelandic dead travel only by night.
Làákàyè
Làákàyè díẹ̀
Àwọn ibi tó lẹ̀
  • '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
àkọsílẹ̀ pápá

Ohun tí àwọn orísun sọ

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

Ṣé o lè sá fún un?

Ẹ̀ka ìyára láti bí àwọn orísun ṣe ṣàpèjúwe rẹ̀ (ó yàtọ̀), kì í ṣe ìwọ̀n.

Ìwọ, ní rírìn nǹkan bí 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Ìwọ, ní eré òwúrọ̀ nǹkan bí 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Uppvakningur nǹkan bí 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Àgbàlagbà alágbára tó ń sáré nǹkan bí 24 km/h (15 mph)
Ẹni tó ń gun kẹ̀kẹ́ lákọ̀ọ́kọ̀ nǹkan bí 37 km/h (23 mph)

Àwọn orísun

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

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Ìtàn àtẹnudẹ́nu láti àwọn ilẹ̀ kan náà

DraugrNorse, 1250GlámrNorse (Icelandic saga), 1300AsvithNorse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga), 1200Deacon of MyrkáIcelandic, 1860HaugbúiNorse, 1250HjaðningavígNorse / Germanic

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