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Deacon of Myrká

Também chamado de: Djákninn á Myrká, Deacon of Dark River

The Deacon of Myrká is Iceland's best-known tale of the returning dead. A drowned clergyman rides out of his grave on Christmas Eve to collect the woman he had promised to bring to the feast, and tries to drag her into the grave with him. It is a local form of the international 'dead bridegroom' story, but the deacon is a solid corpse with a smashed skull. The tale remains a fixture of Icelandic art and literature.1

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Primeiro registro
1860
First printed in Konrad Maurer's Isländische Volkssagen der Gegenwart (1860), then in Jón Árnason's collection (1862)
Origem
Icelandic
Islândia
O que causa
Outro
A drowned man keeps the appointment he made in life.
Como você vira um
A deacon drowned in the river Hörgá with a head wound a week before Christmas, having promised to fetch his fiancée for the feast.
Como se move
Corre
Arrives on horseback and carries the woman off at a gallop to the churchyard.
Inteligência
Esperto
Pontos fracos
  • ringing the church bell
  • an exorcist, who finally laid him

Quando apareceu pela primeira vez?

Mundo antigo
Idade Média
1500 a 1899
1900 a 1967
1968 a 1999
2000 a 2009
2010 até hoje
1860

First printed in Konrad Maurer's Isländische Volkssagen der Gegenwart (1860), then in Jón Árnason's collection (1862)

notas de campo

O que dizem as fontes

1

His fiancée Guðrún had not heard that he was dead1

2

As they ride, his hat tips forward and she sees the bare skull through the wound1

3

He calls her 'Garún' because the Icelandic dead cannot pronounce Guð, 'God'1

4

At the open grave he seizes only the empty sleeve of her coat1

5

She saves herself by hauling on the bell rope until people come1

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Você, andando cerca de 5 km/h
Você, correndo leve cerca de 10 km/h
Um adulto em forma correndo a toda cerca de 24 km/h
Deacon of Myrká cerca de 24 km/h
Um ciclista rápido cerca de 37 km/h

Fontes

  1. Dj%C3%A1kninn %C3%A1 Myrk%C3%A1 - Wikipedia

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Folclore das mesmas terras

Mesma época: 1500 a 1899