Þráinn

Ibuye libizwe: Thrain, Thráinn

Amasiko nezinganekwaneAbangafiKunyakaza kancane kakhuluUbuthakathiEzikhathini Eziphakathi

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

⚔️ Lwa nayo

Kuqoshwe kuqala

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

Imvelaphi

Norse (Icelandic legendary saga)

I-Iceland

Okuyibangela

Ubuthakathi

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

Indlela oba ngayo yinye

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

Indlela inyakaza ngayo

Kunyakaza kancane kakhulu

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

Ubuhlakani

Ohlakaniphile

Izindawo ezibuthaka

being out-wrestled
burning the body

Yaqala nini ukuvela?

Izwe lasendulo

Ezikhathini Eziphakathi

1500 kuya ku-1899

1900 kuya ku-1967

1968 kuya ku-1999

2000 kuya ku-2009

2010 kuya namuhla

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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