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Glámr

Detto anche: Glam, Glámur
Folklore e mitiNon mortoVariaMedioevo

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

⚔️ Combatterlo
Prima attestazione
1300
Grettis saga, which reached its present form in the 14th century (earliest manuscript shortly before 1400)
Origine
Norse (Icelandic saga)
Islanda
Cosa lo causa
Altro
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.
Come lo si diventa
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.
Come si muove
Varia
Comes down to the farm at night, enormous in size, and breaks into the hall, tearing away the door lintel and wrecking the roof.
Intelligenza
Furbo
Punti deboli
  • beheading by Grettir
  • cremation, with the ashes buried far from people and livestock

Quando è comparso per la prima volta?

Mondo antico
Medioevo
Dal 1500 al 1899
Dal 1900 al 1967
Dal 1968 al 1999
Dal 2000 al 2009
Dal 2010 a oggi
1300

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

appunti sul campo

Cosa dicono le fonti

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

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Classe di velocità dalla descrizione delle fonti (varia), non una misura.

Tu, che cammini circa 5 km/h
Tu, che corri circa 10 km/h
Glámr circa 10 km/h
Un adulto allenato in sprint circa 24 km/h
Un ciclista veloce circa 37 km/h

Fonti

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

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Folklore delle stesse terre

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

Stessa epoca: Medioevo

VetalaHindu (Indian), 1070Revenant (medieval England)Medieval English, 1100UpiórSlavic, 1100Berwick revenantMedieval English / Scottish borders, 1198Buckinghamshire revenantMedieval English, 1198Byland Abbey revenantsMedieval English, 1400