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Hundeprest of Melrose

Einnig kallaður: the Dog-Priest, Melrose Abbey revenant
Þjóðtrú og goðsagnirÓdauðurBreytilegtSlæmur dauðdagi eða greftrunMiðaldir

The Hundeprest is the walking dead priest of Melrose, recorded by William of Newburgh. Buried in the monastery, he rose at night and terrified his former mistress until a party of four undertook to watch the grave. One of them drove an axe into the corpse when it charged him, and at dawn the wounded, bleeding body was exhumed, burned and its ashes scattered. The story is unusual for showing a revenant physically injured in a fight.12

⚔️ Berjast við hann
Fyrst skráður
1198
William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s
Uppruni
Medieval English / Scottish borders
Bretland
Hvað veldur því
Slæmur dauðdagi eða greftrun
A worldly priest who neglected his calling in life cannot rest in the monastery where he was buried.
Hvernig maður verður einn
A chaplain so devoted to hunting that he was nicknamed 'Hundeprest', the dog-priest.
Hvernig hann hreyfist
Breytilegt
Rises at night; the sanctity of the monks keeps him from doing harm inside the abbey, so he roams outside and groans around a noblewoman's bedchamber.
Greind
Nokkur greind
Veikir blettir
  • an axe blow from one of the men watching his grave
  • burning the body and scattering the ashes

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1198

William of Newburgh, Historia rerum Anglicarum, written in the 1190s

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1

He had been chaplain to a noble lady and haunted her after death12

2

Two friars and two strong young men kept an armed vigil at the grave12

3

When three went off to warm themselves, the corpse attacked the one left alone12

4

Wounded, it fled back to a tomb that opened to receive it and closed again12

5

In the morning the body was dug up with the axe wound in it and the grave full of blood12

Gætirðu hlaupið hann af þér?

Hraðaflokkur byggður á lýsingum heimilda (breytilegt), ekki mæling.

Þú, gangandi um 5 km/h
Þú, skokkandi um 10 km/h
Hundeprest of Melrose um 10 km/h
Hraustur fullorðinn á spretti um 24 km/h
Fljótur hjólreiðamaður um 37 km/h

Heimildir

  1. William of Newburgh, History, Book 5 - Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University)
  2. Elif Boyacıoğlu, 'The Revenant on the Threshold', Folklore 62 (2015)

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