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Hrappr

Aussi appelé: Víga-Hrappr, Killer-Hrapp, Hrapp
Folklore et mythesMort-vivantVariableMoyen Âge

Hrappr is the walking dead man of Laxdæla saga, a bully in life who has himself buried standing under his own threshold. A run of deaths follows until the estate lies empty. Olaf the Peacock eventually has the grave opened, finds the body fresh, burns it and scatters the ashes at sea. It is one of the clearest saga cases of the full sequence of unnatural burial, haunting, exhumation and cremation.123

⚔️ L'affronter
Première mention
1245
Laxdæla saga, composed between about 1230 and 1260
Origine
Norse (Icelandic saga)
Islande
Ce qui le provoque
Autre
A domineering farmer arranges to be buried where he can keep watch on his household, and goes on walking.
Comment on en devient un
On his deathbed he orders his wife to bury him upright under the doorway of his hall.
Comment il se déplace
Variable
Walks his old farm at dusk rather than staying in the grave; he can vanish by sinking into the ground.
Intelligence
Un peu d'intelligence
Points faibles
  • exhuming and burning the body
  • throwing the ashes into the sea

Quand est-il apparu pour la première fois ?

Monde antique
Moyen Âge
1500 à 1899
1900 à 1967
1968 à 1999
2000 à 2009
2010 à aujourd'hui
1245

Laxdæla saga, composed between about 1230 and 1260

notes de terrain

Ce que disent les sources

1

His farm, Hrappstaðir, is abandoned after a run of deaths123

2

When Olaf the Peacock attacks him he snaps the spear shaft and disappears into the earth123

3

The exhumed body is undecayed and Olaf's spearhead is found beside it123

4

He is also said to appear as a seal that wrecks a ship carrying new settlers to the farm123

5

Scholars have read saga revenants like him as a way of talking about plague, madness or trauma123

Pourriez-vous le distancer ?

Classe de vitesse d'après la description des sources (variable), pas une mesure.

Vous, en marchant environ 5 km/h
Vous, en jogging environ 10 km/h
Hrappr environ 10 km/h
Un adulte en forme qui sprinte environ 24 km/h
Un cycliste rapide environ 37 km/h

Sources

  1. Laxd%C3%A6la saga - Wikipedia
  2. Draugr - Wikipedia
  3. Viking zombies and how to kill them - University of Liverpool News

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