Þráinn

Einnig kallaður: Thrain, Thráinn

Þjóðtrú og goðsagnirÓdauðurHreyfist varlaGaldrarMiðaldir

Þráinn is the barrow-dwelling undead king of Hrómundar saga Gripssonar. Once a ruler in Gaul, he sits in his mound with the sword Mistilteinn until Hrómundr climbs in, wrestles him and burns the body. The tale was already being told as entertainment in 12th-century Iceland, which makes it one of the oldest datable draugr fights in the record.1 2

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Fyrst skráður

1119

A saga of Hrómundr was reportedly recited at a wedding at Reykjahólar in 1119; the story survives through the 14th-century Griplur rímur and later prose

Uppruni

Norse (Icelandic legendary saga)

Ísland

Hvað veldur því

Galdrar

A sorcerer-king who took his powers with him into the barrow.

Hvernig maður verður einn

A king of Valland (Gaul) turned witch-king, entombed in a barrow.

Hvernig hann hreyfist

Hreyfist varla

Remains in his barrow and grapples with the hero who breaks in.

Greind

Klár

Veikir blettir

being out-wrestled
burning the body

Hvenær kom hann fyrst fram?

Fornöld

Miðaldir

1500 til 1899

1900 til 1967

1968 til 1999

2000 til 2009

2010 til dagsins í dag

1119

A saga of Hrómundr was reportedly recited at a wedding at Reykjahólar in 1119; the story survives through the 14th-century Griplur rímur and later prose

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