Þráinn

A tún ń pè é ní: Thrain, Thráinn

Ìtàn àtẹnudẹ́nu àti àròsọÒkúKò fẹ́rẹ̀ẹ́ rìnOṣóSáà Àárín

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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Ìgbà àkọ́kọ́ tí a kọ sílẹ̀

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

Orírun

Norse (Icelandic legendary saga)

Iceland

Ohun tó fà á

Oṣó

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

Bí o ṣe di ọ̀kan

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

Bí ó ṣe ń rìn

Kò fẹ́rẹ̀ẹ́ rìn

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

Làákàyè

Ọlọ́gbọ́n

Àwọn ibi tó lẹ̀

being out-wrestled
burning the body

Ìgbà wo ló kọ́kọ́ farahàn?

Ayé àtijọ́

Sáà Àárín

1500 sí 1899

1900 sí 1967

1968 sí 1999

2000 sí 2009

2010 títí di òní

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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