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A draugr (original Old Norse plural draugar, as used here, not draugrs), draug or draugen (Norwegian meaning the draug) is a corporeal undead from Norse mythology. The original norse meaning of the word is ghost, and on older literature one will find clear distinctions between Sea-draug and land-draug. Draugar were believed to live in the graves of dead Vikings, being the body of the dead. Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ...
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Undead is a collective name for mythological beings that are deceased yet behave as if alive. ...
Norse or Scandinavian mythology comprises the pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian people, including those who settled on Iceland, where the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled. ...
Old Norse is the Germanic language spoken by the inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300. ...
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The term Viking commonly denotes the ship-borne warriors, pirates and traders of Norsemen (literally, men from the north) who originated in Scandinavia and raided the coasts of Britain, Ireland and mainland Europe as far east as the Volga River in Russia (referred to as Varangians by the Russian Primary...
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Views differed on whether the personality and soul of the dead person lingered in the draugr. As the graves of important men often contained a good amount of wealth, the draugr jealously guarded his treasures, even after death. The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the self-aware essence unique to a particular living being. ...
Ancient unreadable gravestones mark the position of graves in the parish churchyard at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England A grave is a place where the body of a dead animal, generally human, is buried, often after a funeral. ...
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Traits
All draugar possess superhuman strength, the ability to increase their size at will and the unmistakable stench of decay. They were also noted for the ability to rise from the grave as wisps of smoke. The draugar slew their victims through various methods including crushing them with their enlarged forms, devouring their flesh, and drinking their blood. Animals feeding near the grave of a draugr were often driven mad by the creature's influence.[1]
Some draugar were gifted with immunity to usual weapons. To defeat a draugr, a hero was often necessary, since only such a man had strength and courage enough to stand up to so formidable an opponent. The hero would often have to wrestle the draugr back to his grave, thereby defeating him, since weapons would do no good. A good example of this kind of fight is found in Hrómundar saga Gripssonar. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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Hrómundar saga Gripssonar or the The Saga of Hromund Gripsson is a legendary saga from Iceland. ...
It is said that the draugr, even when defeated, would come back, requiring the hero to dispose of the body in unconventional ways. The most preferred method was to cut off the draugr's head, burn the body, and dump the ashes in the sea, the emphasis being on making absolutely sure the draugr was dead and gone. This may be related to the traditional practice of killing vampires seen in other cultures. Further reading Christopher Frayling - Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula 1992. ...
The draugar were said to be either hel-blár ("death black") or, conversely, nár-fölr ("corpse-pale").[1]
Some draugar were able to leave their dwelling place, the burial mound, and visit the living during the night. Such visits were universally horrible events, and often ended in death for one or more of the living, and warranted the exhumation of the draugr's tomb by a hero. By other animals Humans are not the only species to bury their dead. ...
A subtype of the draugr was the haugbui. The notable difference between the two was that the haugbui was unable to leave its grave site and only attacked those that trespassed upon their territory.[1]
The creature is said to either swim alongside boats or sail around them in a partially submerged vessel, always on their own. In some accounts, witnesses portray them as shapeshifters who take on the appearance of seaweed or moss-covered stones on the shoreline. Tsarevna Frog by Viktor Vasnetsov: a frog metamorphoses into a princess Shapeshifting is a common theme in mythology and folklore, as well as in science fiction and fantasy. ...
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Means of prevention A pair of open iron scissors were placed on the chest of the recently deceased while straws or twigs might be hidden among their clothes. The big toes were tied together or needles were driven through the soles of the feet in order to keep the dead from being able to walk. Tradition also held that the coffin be lifted and lowered in three different directions as it was carried from the house to confuse a possible draugr's sense of direction.
The most effective means of preventing the return of the dead was the corpse door. A special door was built on, through which the corpse was carried feet-first with people surrounding it so the corpse couldn't see where it was going. The door was then bricked up to prevent a return visit. It is speculated that this belief began in Denmark and spread through out the Norse culture. The belief was founded on the idea that the dead only enter through the way they left.
Speculation Dr. John Tanke has theorized that the words dragon and draugr might be related. He notes that both the serpent and the spirit serve as jealous guardians of the graves of kings or ancient civilizations. Dragons that act as draugar appear in Beowulf as well as in the stories of Siegfried. Saint George versus the dragon, Gustave Moreau, c. ...
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The first page of Beowulf Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem composed around 1100 AD. At 3,183 lines, the poem is notable for its length. ...
Sigurd sculpture in Bremen Sigurd (Old Norse: Sigurðr, German: Siegfried) was a legendary hero of Norse mythology, as well as the central character in the Völsunga saga. ...
Folklore
An artist's rendition of the draug Arguably, the best known draugr in the modern world is Glamr, who was defeated by the hero of the Grettis Saga, as the saga includes a short account of him as a living man, and a full account of his haunting, up to the intervention of Grettir who wrestled him back to death. Image File history File links Draug_EmelinAgnetheMyhre. ...
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Grettis saga or Grettla is an Icelandic saga detailing the life of Grettir Ásmundarson, an Icelandic viking who became an outlaw. ...
A somewhat ambivalent, alternative view of the draugr is presented by the example of Gunnar in Njál's saga: Gunnar is the most attractive and unreservedly admired of Icelandic saga heroes,a man of heroism, energy, virtue, and --- above all --- unswerving loyalty to the land of his birth and love for its overpowering physical beauty Tricked by his enemies into disobeying the warnings of his prescient friend Njáll...
Njáls saga (also known as The Story of Burnt Njál) is an epic of Icelandic literature from the 13th century that describes the progress of a 50-year blood feud. ...
- "It seemed as though the howe was agape, and that Gunnar had turned within the howe to look upwards at the moon. They thought that they saw four lights within the howe, but not a shadow to be seen. Then they saw that Gunnar was merry, with a joyful face".
In the Eyrbyggja Saga a shepherd is assaulted by a blue-black draugr. The shepherd's neck is broken during the ensuing scuffle. The shepherd rises the next night as a draugr.[1] The Eyrbyggja saga is one of the Icelandic sagas. ...
In more recent folklore, the draug is often identified with the spirits of mariners drowned at sea. In Scandinavian folklore, the creature is said to possess a distinctly human form, with the exception that its head is composed entirely of seaweed. In other tellings, the draug is described as being a headless fisherman, dressed in oilskins. This trait is common in the northernmost part of Norway, where life and culture was based on the fish, more than anywhere else. Three types of mariners are seen here in the wheelhouse: a master, an able seaman, and a harbour pilot. ...
Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe and includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. ...
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A recorded legend from Trøndelag tells how a corpse lying on a beach became the object of a quarrel between the two types of draug. A similar source even tells of a third type, the gleip, known to hitch themselves to sailors walking ashore and making them slip on the wet rocks. Norwegian folklore thus records a number of different draug-types. Trøndelag is the name of a geographical region in the middle of Norway, consisting of the two counties Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag. ...
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 A draug aboard a ship, in sub-human form, wearing oilskins But, though the draug usually presages death, there is an amusing account in Nord-Norge of a Nordlending who managed to outwit him: Image File history File links Download high resolution version (455x676, 52 KB) Summary Scanned and edited by Craig M. Groshek Licensing This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus...
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It was Christmas Eve, and Ola went down to his boathouse to get the keg of brandy he had bought for the holidays. When he got in, he noticed a draug sitting on the keg, staring out to sea. Ola, with great presence of mind and great bravery (it might not be amiss to state that he already had done some drinking), tiptoed up behind the draug and struck him sharply in the small of the back, so that he went flying out through the window, with sparks hissing around him as he hit the water. Ola knew he had no time to lose, so he set off at a great rate, running through the churchyard which lay between his home and the boathouse. As he ran, he cried, "Up, all you Christian souls, and help me!" Then he heard the sound of fighting between the ghosts and the draug, who were battling each other with coffin boards and bunches of seaweed. The next morning, when people came to church, the whole yard was strewn with coffin covers, boat boards, and seaweed. After the fight, which the ghosts won, the draug never came back to that district. The Christmas Eve (1904-05), watercolor painting by the Swedish painter Carl Larsson (1853-1919) Christmas Eve, the evening of December 24th, the preceding day or vigil before Christmas Day, is treated to a greater or a lesser extent in most Christian societies as part of the Christmas season. ...
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A bottle of calvados Pays DAuge Brandy (short for brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn—burnt wine[1]) is a general term for distilled wine, usually 40–60% ethyl alcohol by volume. ...
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The connection between the draug and the sea can be traced back to the author Jonas Lie and the story-teller Regine Nordmann, as well as the drawings of Theodor Kittelsen, who spent some years living in Svolvær. Up north, the tradition of sea-draugar is especially vivid. Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie (November 6, 1833 – July 5, 1908) was a Norwegian novelist, considered to be one of the Four Greats of 19th century Norwegian literature. ...
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Kittelsen is known for his drawings of trolls. ...
Svolvær is the administrative centre of Vågan Municipality in Nordland County, Norway. ...
Arne Garborg, on the other hand, describes land-draugar coming fresh from the graveyards, and the term draug is even used of Vampires, in Norway translated as "Bloodsucker-draugar". In this sense, the draug is an undead. Sculpture in stone of Arne Garborg, located at his home in Knudaheio Arne Garborg (1851-1924) was a Norwegian writer. ...
Further reading Christopher Frayling - Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula 1992. ...
Undead is a collective name for mythological beings that are deceased yet behave as if alive. ...
Draug sightings in modern times are not so common, but are still reported by reasonable and relatively sane individuals from time to time. Due to this trend, the term “draug” has come to be used in a more general sense in recent years to describe any type of revenant in Nordic folklore. In the Middle Ages, revenants were legendary animated corpses which rose from the grave to haunt the living. ...
The Norwegian municipality of Bø has the half boat of draugen in its coat-of-arms. County Nordland District VesterÃ¥len Municipality NO-1867 Administrative centre Straume Mayor (2003) Viggo Johnsen (SP) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 304 247 km² 236 km² 0. ...
Popular culture J.R.R. Tolkien used the draugr as the basis of his barrow-wights in The Lord of the Rings. J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916. ...
Barrow-wights are wraith-like creatures in J. R. R. Tolkiens world of Middle-earth. ...
The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by the English academic J. R. R. Tolkien. ...
Draugrs are adversaries in the video game The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon. The Elder Scrolls III: Bloodmoon is the second expansion set for Bethesda Softworks The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: unlike Tribunal, it adds a large new island to the original world map, a cold northern country named Solstheim. ...
Draugar are a type of skeleton monster in the online game Final Fantasy XI: Online.
In the popular MMORPG RuneScape, during a certain (heavily Norse-themed) quest, the player must prove their worth as a hunter by tracking the "Draugen" down with a magical talisman, and defeat the mysterious spirit creature. It holds several key similarities to the draugr of Norse lore, and as the quest itself consists of the player undergoing several trials to become a member of a clan who are clearly based upon the Vikings of old, this offers credence to the theory that the "Draugen" is based upon the draugr. An image from World of Warcraft, one of the largest commercial MMORPGs as of 2004, based on active subscriptions. ...
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Draugrs in White Wolf's popular pen and paper RPG, Vampire: The Requiem, are Kindred with a Humanity score of zero. Since losing any remnant of their human side draugrs lack rational thought and are completely animalistic, only feeding its hunger and protecting its existence. Should a Kindred become a draugr, other Kindreds are quick to killing it, since draugrs' actions threaten the Masquerade. White Wolf, Inc. ...
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In Ãsatrú and some forms of Germanic neopaganism, a Kindred is a local worship group. ...
Draugar are special undead troops in the online game Norron, usable only by players who worship Freya. Freya, in an illustration to Wagners operas by Arthur Rackham. ...
The walking dead who destroy the town of Stromness in the 2004 version of The Bard's Tale are referred to as draugr. Bards Tale may refer to: The Bards Tale game released by Interplay Productions/Electronic Arts in 1985. ...
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Look up Draugr in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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Sources The Draug. 'Encyclopedia Mythica from Encyclopedia Mythica Online. Retrieved on September 28, 2005. is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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References - ^ a b c d Dr. Bob Curran, Vampires - A Field Guide to the Creatures that Stalk the Night, 81-93, New Page Books, 2005.
In the book Garrett P.I: Old Tin Sorrows, a group of Draugr complicate his situation. While according to Garrett they avenge wrongs, they seem to attack at random. Zombie like in motion, they appear to possess knowledge to work doors and can retain skills such as unarmed combat.
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