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Glámr

También llamado: Glam, Glámur
Folclore y mitosNo muertoVaríaEdad Media

Glámr is the most famous individual walking corpse in the Icelandic sagas. A Swedish shepherd killed at Yule on a haunted farm, he returns as a huge, blackened revenant that terrorises the valley until the outlaw-hero Grettir wrestles him down and cuts off his head. He wins in death anyway: his dying curse leaves Grettir afraid of the dark for the rest of his life. The episode is the classic saga statement of the idea that an encounter with the dead leaves permanent damage.123

⚔️ Combatirlo
Primer registro
1300
Grettis saga, which reached its present form in the 14th century (earliest manuscript shortly before 1400)
Origen
Norse (Icelandic saga)
Islandia
Qué lo causa
Otro
The saga implies that whatever haunted the farm passed its undeath on to the shepherd it killed; scholar Ármann Jakobsson reads it as a transmitted condition.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
A Swedish shepherd hired to work a haunted pasture; he refused the Yule fast, was found dead in the snow and could not be moved to a church, so he was buried where he lay.
Cómo se mueve
Varía
Comes down to the farm at night, enormous in size, and breaks into the hall, tearing away the door lintel and wrecking the roof.
Inteligencia
Listo
Puntos débiles
  • beheading by Grettir
  • cremation, with the ashes buried far from people and livestock

¿Cuándo apareció por primera vez?

Mundo antiguo
Edad Media
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a hoy
1300

Grettis saga, which reached its present form in the 14th century (earliest manuscript shortly before 1400)

notas de campo

Qué dicen las fuentes

1

The saga never calls him a draugr, only a 'troll'; the label is modern scholarship's123

2

Described as black and swollen to the size of a bull123

3

His stare momentarily leaves Grettir powerless123

4

Before dying a second time he curses Grettir with weakness, bad luck and a lasting fear of the dark123

5

The curse drives the rest of the saga: outlawry, isolation and an early death123

¿Podrías huir de él?

Clase de velocidad según cómo la describen las fuentes (varía), no una medición.

Tú, caminando unos 5 km/h
Tú, trotando unos 10 km/h
Glámr unos 10 km/h
Un adulto en forma a la carrera unos 24 km/h
Un ciclista rápido unos 37 km/h

Fuentes

  1. Grettis saga - Wikipedia
  2. Draugr - Wikipedia
  3. Viking zombies and how to kill them - University of Liverpool News

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DraugrNorse, 1250AsvithNorse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga), 1200Deacon of MyrkáIcelandic, 1860HaugbúiNorse, 1250HjaðningavígNorse / GermanicHrapprNorse (Icelandic saga), 1245

Misma época: Edad Media

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