The Spookiest Story from the Icelandic Sagas
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- The chilling tale of the undead Glámr from Grettis saga Ásmundarsonar (The Saga of Grettir the Strong). Tickets to classes and events: www.eventbrite...
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The episode was set to music by Icelandic composer Jón Leifs (d.1968), as part of his Symphony "Saga Heroes". Glamur can be heard kicking his heels on the roof, and then the conflict inside the house. The music is pure atmosphere. Try it!
We have our own horror movie tropes today, but I would guess the Norse horror trope would be: 'The character that makes light of the aptrgangr is next to get eaten.'
Advent, the four-week liturgical season leading up to Christmas, is a penitential season, so fasting would be in character. Also in medieval times, Wednesdays and Fridays were always fast days.
Long ago, Christmas eve was a time for fasting. That is difficult to imagine today, where it is the greatest feast of the year. This is the origin of the Danish tradition of eating cod on new year's eve. It was moved rom Chrismas eve when Christmas eve changed from fast to feast.
Cool. I wrote a paper in German based on the Old Norse text back in the day for my Germanic folk tales course with Dr. Marlene Ciklamini. Takes me back over 30 years. Grettir Amundarson, the high mimetic hero, doomed.
A saga “tier list” or describing the best/your favorite sagas would actually be really great content
As far as the “riding” of the roof, I have heard that there is a sexual connotation to the act, like an act of expressing domination of the household and a way of unnerving and shaming the residents, similar to klámhogg etc. in a way. There is a channel called “the Reykjavik grapevine” that did a pretty good summary/overview of this saga in one of their series that’s more from a modern Icelandic standpoint, I can’t remember exactly which video but they are all worth checking out, their saga series and spooky tales series is pretty good. Got a cool one on huldufólk/elves as well.
That's interesting! I can also imagine people in a longhouse late at night, it's dark outside and maybe windy, you hear creaking and other sounds from outside, and it's easy to imagine some creature is outside or up on the roof.
In danish a ghost is sometime called a "genganger". That would be translatet as an "again walker" one who walkes after he/she died.
In danish folktales draugr is often ghosts/zombies of seamen drowned at sea, they are dressed in seaweeds and fight with oars.
In one tale there is a big battle with draugr on one side, who tries to pass a christian graveyard, and the dead christians on the other side. The day after the battle there is oars and planks from coffins, all over the graveyard.
About the riding, the danish word for nightmare is "mareridt". A "mare" is a ghost of a kind, that sits on top of the sleeping and rides the sleeping person as a horse.
Called Widergänger in German....
Interestingly an important traditional topic in the Balkans (especially also Romanian ) folklore/ mythology where these Undead are called Strigoi or.Moroi (and not vampires).
My personal theory is that a lot of this "Undead /Widergänger" mythology /folklore is closely connected to with the switch from pagan incineration ritea to christian inhumation method of dealing with the deceased...
Incineration seems to have been theethod of choice of the majority of Indoeuropean Pagan peoples until their comversion to christianity during laye antiquity/early middle ages.
I wonder if Grettir's symptoms can be seen as PTSD through the lens of modern psychology
[14:48] He cuts Glamur's head off, not Grettir's! Not on the ball today, JC.
As noted earlier in the video, I knew I would flip these names because I always do.
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7:00 how is it described, what makes it grim?
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OK i'm confused - in another video recently you said "au" sounds differently than how you pronounced "draugr" in this video? what is the reason for the difference?
I use Old Norse pronunciation when discussing Old Norse literature, whereas in other shorts or videos I might explain Modern Icelandic pronunciation. I discuss some of the differences here: ruclips.net/video/efDt-9-j3_c/видео.html
Very interesting and appropriately spooky! Grettir's Saga is the one that contains an unusual lot of proverbs, is it not? Maybe those are worth coverage on your channel?
´´Þau tíðkast nú hin breiðu spjótin´´ is one famous proverb from this saga.