roaring loudly and blowing fire", and moreover, possessed long scratching claws, and the claws stuck in the neck, prompting the hero Hrómundr to refer to the dragur as a sort of cat ( Old Norse: kattakyn).
Þráinn (Thrain) the berserker of Valland "turned himself into a troll" in Hrómundar saga Gripssonar was a fiend ( dólgr) which was "black and huge. Laxdæla saga describes how bones were dug up belonging to a dead sorceress who had appeared in dreams, and they were "blue and evil looking". The close similarity of these descriptions have been noted.
Þórólfr Lame-foot, when lying dormant, looked "uncorrupted" and also "was black as death and swollen to the size of an ox". Glámr when found dead was described as " blár sem Hel en digr sem naut (black as hell and bloated to the size of a bull)". The draugar were said to be either hel-blár ("death-blue") or nár-fölr ("corpse-pale"), to state it in shorthand.
Physical traits ĭraugar usually possessed superhuman strength, and were "generally hideous to look at", bearing a necrotic black color, and were associated with a "reek of decay" or more precisely inhabited haunts that often issued foul stench. It has been surmised by commentators that Glámr by "contamination" was turned into an undead ( draugr) by whatever being was haunting the farm. Ī more speculative case of vampirism is that of Glámr, who was asked to tend sheep for a haunted farmstead and was subsequently found dead with his neck and every bone in his body broken. Sometimes the chain of contagion becomes an outbreak, e.g., the case of Þórólfr bægifótr (Thorolf Lame-foot or Twist-Foot), and even called an "epidemic" regarding Þórgunna (Thorgunna). The focus here is not on blood-sucking, which is not attested for the draugr, but rather, contagiousness or transmittable nature of vampirism, that is to say, how a vampire begets another by turning his or her attack victim into one of his own kind. The draugr has also been conceived of as a type of " vampire" by folktale anthologist Andrew Lang in the late 1897, with the idea further pursued by more modern commentators. The draugr is a "corporeal ghost" with a physical tangible body and not an "imago", and in tales it is often delivered a "second death" by destruction of the enlivened corpse. Overall classification Ghost with physical body Ī further caveat is that the application of the term draugr may not necessarily follow what the term might have meant in the strict sense during medieval times, but rather follow a modern definition or notion of draugr, specifically such ghostly beings (by whatever names they are called) that occur in Icelandic folktales categorized as "Draugasögur" in Jón Árnason's collection, based on the classification groundwork laid by Konrad Maurer. of aptrganga) and reimleikar (‘haunting’) in these medieval sagas are still commonly discussed as a draugr in various scholarly works, or the draugar and the haugbúar are lumped into one. īeings not specifically called draugar, but actually only referred to as aptrgǫngur (‘revenants’, pl. Yet Glámr is still routinely referred to as a draugr. Unlike Kárr inn gamli (Kar the Old) in Grettis saga, who is specifically called a draugr, Glámr the ghost in the same saga is never explicitly called a draugr in the text, though called a "troll" in it. The word is hypothetically traced to Proto-Indo European stem * dʰrowgʰos "phantom", from * dʰrewgʰ- "deceive" (see also Avestan " druj"). In Swedish, draug is a modern loanword from West Norse, as the native Swedish form drög has acquired the meaning of "a pale, ineffectual, and slow-minded person that drags himself along". Tolkien employed this term in his novels, though "barrow-wight" is actually a rendering of haugbúinn (literally the ‘howe-dweller’), otherwise translated as "barrow-dweller". The draugr was referred to as " barrow-wight" in the 1869 translation of Grettis saga, long before J. Often the draugr is regarded not so much as a ghost but a revenant, i.e., the reanimated of the deceased inside the burial mound (as in the example of Kárr inn gamli in Grettis saga). Old Norse draugr is defined as "a ghost, spirit, esp. They are revenants, or animated corpses with a corporeal body, rather than ghosts which possess intangible spiritual bodies. Draugar live in their graves or royal palaces, often guarding treasure buried with them in their burial mound.
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