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What do the Sagas of the Icelanders and Game of Thrones have in common? Dr. Zarka answers this question and explores how the draugr, Nordic undead monsters, bear a striking resemblance to the White Walkers-and more importantly, how these monsters connect to the history of Ancient Nordic peoples.
The concept of medieval-era and older undead beings fighting and terrifying the living isn’t new; it’s a part of Nordic, particularly Icelandic, history. The Draugr Myth, popularized by games such as Skyrim and God of War, offers insight into the burial practices, religious beliefs, cultural attitudes, and gender roles of Vikings and other Ancient Nordic people. #whitewalkers #zombies #MonstrumPBS
Written and Hosted by: Dr. Emily Zarka
Director: David Schulte
Executive Producer: Amanda Fox
Producer: Stephanie Noone
Illustrator: Samuel Allen
Editor: Sara Roma
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Dr. Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir: @sagaknitter
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Baier, Katharina and Werner Schafke. “When the Dead No Longer Rest: The Religious
Significance of Revenants In Sagas set in Viking Age Settlements Around the Time of Conversion.” Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times: The Material and Spiritual Conditions of the Culture of Death, edited by Albrecht Classen, De Gruyter, Inc. 2016, pp. 131-154.
Chadwick, N.K. “Norse Ghosts (A Study in the Draugr and the Haugbúi).” Folklore, vol. 57, no. 2, 1946, pp. 50-65.
Eyrbyggja Saga. Sagas of Icelanders: The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, including 49 tales, edited by Viðar Hreinsson, Leifur Eiríksson Publishing, 1997.
Grettir’s Saga. Translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson, 1990.
sagadb.org/gre....
Hawes, Janice. “The Monstrosity of Heroism: Grettir Asmundarson as an Outsider.”
Scandinavian Studies, March 1, 2008, pp. 19-50.
Laxdaela Saga (The Saga of the People of Laxardal). Translated by Keneva Kjunz. The Sagas of the Icelanders, Penguin Books, 2000.
Martin, George R.R. A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1. Bantam, 2012.
Sayers, William. “The Alien and Alienated as Unquiet Dead in the Sagas of the Icelanders.” Monster Theory: Reading Culture, Ed. Jeffery Jerome Cohen, 1996, pp. 242-263.
Smith, Gregg A. The Function of the Living Dead in Medieval Norse and Celtic Literature: Death and Desire. The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007.
Teichert, Matthias. “‘Draugula’: The Draugrin Old Norse-Icelandic Saga Literature and His
Relationship to the Post-Medieval Vampire Myth.” The Universal Vampire : Origins and Evolution of a Legend, ed. by Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013.
The Saga of Kind Heidrek the Wise: Translated from the Icelandic with Introduction, Notes and Appendices. Translated by Christopher Tolkien, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1960.
Learn more about Nordic history at the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History (norskfolkemuseum.no/en) and the National Nordic Museum (www.nordicmuseum.org/).
To the Lady of the "Storied Channel"........
HAUGBUI (howg-boo-ee or howg-boowee).
At least that's how it sounds in MY mind. Ever talked to any Norwegian or Scandinavian people for a more accurate pronunciation? I'd seriously LOVE to know.
Amazing! Could you do more about the lich
Awesome videos thank you for making them 😊
( You said if thier would be a monster I like to know more of well mine is I would like to know about the Cookie monster 🍪 thank you )
@@wolfhalfdragon4676she doesn't care - "because whites don't have culture". She's says, "Air quotes around' Viking'"... she's intentionally lying. Vikings absolutely - in every sense - were a district ethnic and cultural people group. They were a specific people group - in a specific time and place (Scandinavia, 8th-11th century). They had a written language, culture, rituals, songs, religion, etc. they traveled/sailed/traded extensively - pretty much throughout the known (and unknown) parts of the world at the time. Simply getting in a boat did not make you a Viking - anymore than eating a taco makes you Mexican.
@@lichesgetkisses7239so she could butcher the facts about that as well 😐
See that ruin up there? Bleak Falls Barrow. When I was a boy, that place always used to give me nightmares. Draugr creeping down the mountain to climb through my window at night, that kind of thing. I admit, I still don't much like the look of it.
Manuel DG god bless u for this
he said in a dingy room without windows.
Rawkwilder LOL
you made my day
Ah damn. You made interested in Skyrim all over again
4:39 If a girl comes back from the dead just to get naked and cook me dinner, I'm eating that dinner.
You have not yet accepted the fact of your lifelong chastity yet, have you?
I'd even smash.
@@kerriekupar6466 Don't bury that corpse. Marry that corpse.
If you find that sexually appealing and want to bang it ...sorry to burst the bubble that my good friend, is necrophilia.
@@firstnamelastnamethirdname Settle down. It's just a joke. I wouldn't actually have sex with a dead person. Animated or otherwise.
I'd love to see a comparison between Ghouls and Zombies and where they originated
Ghouls are part of Arabic folklore, cousins to the Djinn, they mostly hang out around graveyards and eat flesh, Zombies are part of African Voodoo practice, of creating a brain dead slave so to speak.
Michael Hansen thx, I thought they were the same thing
@@theultimatelifeform3580 no, they're not the same thing
Michael Hansen sorry, I meant to put I use to think they were the same thing until you commented this
@@theultimatelifeform3580 no worries
"Fire is an excellent way to kill Draugr, and White Walkers,"
**Laughs in Night King, standing in dragon breath**
Night King sees psychotic little girl
Night King has left the chat.
@@admiralsquatbar127 Looks up from his book, laughs at the lot of you.
Night King isn't in the books btw
@@Natdaprat He had already exited the chat.
draugr seems like the inspiration for white walkers
"You obviously know of them from your studies..."
YES
"Or playing Skyrim!"
Aw...
What?
@@hairdryermanson6955 I was excited because of the phrase used. I study mythology and religion. But then I felt cheapened because they added Skyrim after, and most people have played Skyrim compared to looking at myth.
@@r.babylon2885 this is not a bad thing
@@hairdryermanson6955 True
I didn’t even know they existed in fiction outside of skyrim
Navajo Skinwalkers would be a wonderful addition to the series.
This!!
The problem with those, as I understand it, is that largely the Navajo (at least their elders), really don't want people outside the tribes, hell, even inside the tribes, to talk about them. Largely because they fear that outsiders will warp the cultural heritage
It's already talked about, skinWalker, do it do it do it
But it’s very based on Norse mythos
Things like Skinwalkers are real according to my native friends in Northern Canada. It’s common knowledge to them
You also have the Draug, a nasty sea spirit. In more recent Scandinavian folklore, the draug (the modern spelling used in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) is often identified with the spirits of mariners drowned at sea. 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 oilskin and sailing in half a boat.
I know draugr from playing numerous hours of Skyrim :D
Despite a lot of interest in myths and fantastic creatures I'd never heard of a draugr before playing that game.
Same lmao
For me it was God of war.
@@paulabraham1158 same
Same. Even though I live in Greenland.
@@zephyrerazortail5478 wow I've never met a greenlander before XD
This is pretty good. I'm here because PBS eons mentioned this channel. I would love to see some info on the origin and legends behind Wendigos.
I'll second that. Please!
Yes! I would very much like to know more about the Wendigos.
Wendigos are awesome
Your wish was granted
Yes!!!
What a great idea for a show on RUclips!
I would love to see an in-depth analysis of sea monsters from old nautical maps. I mean, have you seen those "evil whales" from Iceland?
Stay tuned for a classic sea monster later this season...
You mean Beluga whales 😂
Me, whos from Iceland: *Which one?*
There are a lot of "Illhveli", or "evil whales"- blog A Book Of Creatures counts ten.
'How-gah-buh-ee' is close enough. You're welcome :p
A draug is simply any undead. The more common draug, at least in post "viking era" times, is the undead remnants of a fisherman who died at sea, that didn't receive a proper burial. He would continue sailing in his rickety boat with tattered sails, and seeing one would usually mean your ship was to go down.
Ooo had no idea. Thanks for the info.
And the romerian "zombie" is technically speaking a kind of vampire. He took the entire inspiration from I am Legend, and the arabic ghoul. not the voodoo monster.
i also heard that a draugr can also be created through burying someone standing up rather than lying down, and that most draugrs would be buried with riches which they would protect
Ah the draugr. I remember when I first ran into one when I played Skyrim, also the first Elder Scrolls game I ever played. Being Swedish, I was like "wtf, I'm level three and having stumbled into a boss fight already?" Took great care to crouch/sneak to get into a position to snipe it with an arrow. Afterwards I realized they're just zombies with beards. A far cry from the draugr of Norse/Scandinavian mythology, where they are essentially indestructible killing machines.
Great vid, btw!
Hervor sounds like she was an inspiration for Eowyn/Dernhelm in "Lord of the Rings."
Bc she was, Tolkien was not only a linguist but also a historian
Pbs always puts out awesome content! Looking forward for more from this channel
YaY
Interestingly, when I studied Nordic soul concepts for my bachelor thesis, I found the draugr referred to as one of the living humans (for lack of a better word) soul aspects. In short, the body itself, wich formed its own will after the death of the individual. Looking at other cultures across the world, similar views appear. Such as in vodun and daoism, where the darker "soul" of the body needed specific treatment or appeasement, while the brighter soul was released to the more well known kind of afterlife (such as heaven before reincarnation, in the daoist example).
Also "haugbúi" literally means "one who lives in the burial mound". This likely started as just another name for the draugr. In the Nordics there was long belief that naming something was the same as calling for it, wich is why "varg" (wolf) was called "grey-legg" in Sweden, and varg itself came from not wanting to say "ulv" (male wolf) or "ylva" (female wolf). As an old saying goes "When you talk about the trolls, they stand in the hallway".
The distinction between haugbúi and draug is interesting, as some archeologists I have been talking to say they can see a breaking point for when positive traits were associated with this "corpse ghost" (as they call it) and when they simply became monsters. I dont know what they base it on, tho, and looking at similar stories much closer in time there are many similarities with both the positive and negative examples of corpse ghosts. Some who just want to find rest, others who are back for justice and some who are straight out terrifying (such as the "myling") or bloodthirsty (like the shapeshifting "gloso").
Very good. I learned abouth the Draugrs first in a vampire encyclopedia. And I thinking buy the book The Return of the Dead - Claude Lecouteux. It contains the story of Klaufi, a man who was decapitated and returned with his head under his shoulder.
I love the corpse door belief. All I can imagine is a big scary corpse grasping at a wall, looking for a doorknob, and wondering where the hell the door went, it was there just last month!
I know
That moment when the lady you buried thinks you were treated so unfairly that she comes back and basically says "Hey, thanks for going to the trouble. Dinner's on me".
A warrior in Skyrim can learn to decapitate enemies, preventing them to be resurrected by a Necromancer. That's two points for Skyrim.
*laughs in heavy*
My first encounter with Draugar was the novel The Ice King. It's a damned good read, with archaeologists, poachers, human sacrifice, even old One Eye makes an appearance
Woah, I loved this video AND the fact that they cited their sources in the description.
The corpse door story is interesting - here in Britain it is traditional to take a corpse out for burial 'feet first', so that the spirit cannot see the way back to it's home. A bit illogical if you think about it. They'd surely know the layout of their village, and their home in relation to the graveyard from life! But then, so many of these old tales are.
Suggestion: the Flying Head monsters of the Haudenosaunee (aka Iroquois), the Wendigo of various First Nations peoples in Canada, the Adzi of the Ewe people, the Tikoloshe of the Zulu, the Kumiho from Korea, Incubus and Succubus from Middle East and later Europe, and depending upon definitions, some elves of Iceland (and wider Germanic cultures) [note: edited to add further suggestions]
CSHallo those are brown people
@CSHallo Icelandic elves and hidden people are not monsters, but there are plenty of alternatives. Trolls would be the first suggestion, followed by the traditional Yule lads and their troll parents and a child-eating giant cat. The serpent in Lögurinn/Lagarfljót would be Iceland's' Loch Ness, but with a longer history. There are many other to choose from.
Folk believes involving these monsters and hidden people, especially the rituals if your path would cross with one of them, are interesting as well.
Maybe look into Night Marchers from Hawai'i? It's pretty neat stuff.
Marshadow!
😎🤙
Some recommendations.
Werewolves (yes bias)
Mummies, specifically the rumored curse.
Tarrasque, every DND players nightmare.
Slashers
Witchcraft
I’m dying to do an Egyptian mummy episode!
@@pbsstoried I'm actually curious about the Filipino fire mummies myself. Egyptian mummies are always a classic but they seem like something a little bit more exotic.
4:43
When your so pissed that the guys doing the good work of burying your body can't get a good meal.
So you rise from the dead to cook for them and give them fanservice
Fire has never been shown to be effective against "White Walkers", only against the creatures the they create.
Wights != White Walkers
But have the Walkers ever been burned with fire? It's possible fire does work on them like their creations but it hasn't happened yet.
@John Wolfrayet he will just freeze the fire lol
But the idea is still there. And, actually, the draugr resembles more to Wights than to White Walkers... (dead warriors... are the Others actually dead? It's never specified in the books nor in the HBO show)
well, at least one of them smirked after taking dragon fire to the face...
@@WonderingWanderer88 In the show, it's been show that the Night King creates the other White Walkers through transforming living male infants that one of the wildings (the guy who married all his daughters) offers to them regularly
Yeah, between zombies the size of an ox, zombies being summoned to court, and seals popping out of the woodwork, the Saga of the People of Eyri was a trip.
I am so pumped for this show! The host seems absolutely brilliant, and so does the nature of content!
How about now? Have you seen how shit it is?
zombie cooks you good food to hope to be buried properly and it works.
"clever girl"
Wendigo and Chuppecabra (mispelt for sure)
MossyGolem no lol
Yeah but not that far off, it's chupacabra
Chupathingy!
It's from Mexico, I believe... It's a Spanish name for sure. Chpa-cabras in Spanish... in English, it'd be a goat-sucker or sort of... ;)
Ernesto Hernández Benítez it's from Puerto Rico
I came for nordic zombies and Game of Thrones references and now I'm even learning about warrior women!! I love this!
I'd say the influence behind GoT's Wall is Hadrian's Wall. I won't go into long detail in a RUclips comment, but look it up, along with the broad strokes of British history. Westeros is basically a copy of Britain. But George Martin likely took some inspiration from Norse mythology too. I mean, Ragnarök is supposed to happen after a long winter, and the dead are supposed to rise, and it all ends in ice and fire. :D
A long winter during which neighbours turn against each other and only the strubborn and strong survive
@@wardeni9603 Which GoT talked about a lot, but the showrunners didn't do at all in the end.
Actually, in numerous interviews George R.R. Martin did state that the inspiration for The Wall was Hadrian's Wall.
Oddly enough I always thought Hadrian's Wall was the inspiration as well. If I recall, it was built in the British Isles of the time, wasn't it? I don't recall exactly, but I got the same feeling. I also heard something interesting that the map utilized in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series was actually just England flipped upside down. I haven't looked a the map of Westeros in a very long time, so I don't know if that's even accurate but it would be really funny if it is lol
@@loneronin6813 the map of Westeros is Ireland and Britain combined and flipped I think.
Hadrian’s wall was built by the Romans to block attacks by the Picts(Early Celtic people from Scotland) in the province of Britannia
I would love to see how the vampire legends became so diverse around the world and the ways the aspects of them differ from country to country.
This video is fantastic!
helooo
Full of half-truths and outright BS
I see a lot of potential in this channel, and you need to spread awareness of it for sure!
As for monster suggestions, could we get the dragons down the line? Perhaps the Red and White Dragons of ancient Britton?
Some cool ideas for folklore and myth monsters:
Baba yaga
Medusa
Chupacabra
I'm sure you guys will cover myths of werewolves and vampires since those are classics
A series on witches and witchcraft would also be awesome, since it's also a cross cultural figure
Native american legends like the wendigo
Different japanese Yōkai
Geez there's a lot of cool possible material, can't wait to see what you guys put out 😁 i hope you explore as many different cultures as possible, since monsters and myth are an excellent window into the cultural history of peoples!
You must be reading our minds. You’re going to LOVE the content coming this season!
If you are gonna make something about Baba Yaga, please mention that on of her legs is a bone. No skin on it. In Russian, we say "Баба Йага Костяная Нога", which translates to "Baba Yaga the Bone-Legged."
This is fun. We still have "draugen"/haugbúi in the coastal regions in Norway, but now he/it is more an bad omen for fishermen. Inland we have the "Nøkken" who resides in rivers and lakes who tries to lure you in and drown you.
I would love to go to Norway one day and hunt for these creatures!
My friends and kids are all gonna love this .
Such a great channel idea . Can I patreon yesterday ?
Seeing that Draugr living it up on that roof matched with that perfect guitar had me crying XD
Things id love to see covered:
Fae
Windego
Skinwalkers
Werewolves
Vampires
Im excited to see what all gets covered here
That mention of being well connected to your ancestors jogged by brain… There was a character someone made up for a community roleplaying event (usually done on a single large server, in a video game), named Bjorn Bjornson. Every time he'd introduce himself to someone, he'd go through this production, where he'd follow up his name with “Son of Bjorn, Son of Bjorn, Son of Bjorn, Son of Bjorn, Son of Bjorn […]” (it just keeps going; over 40 times). Can't help but wonder if this is a trickle down effect from Viking culture, that someone noticed, and decided to make a joke of.
"Drauger" is also a different type of draugr from the northern norwegian coasts long after the Viking age. Just like the draugr, these were usually Norse folk who drowned out in the sea. Draugers however were mostly known as drowned fishermen who came back to haunt. They were often depicted as rotten undead with sonme bodyparts bloated and covered in sea weed and had fish like features. Some tales tell of draugers having the ability to run on water. Some even sailing on their sunken ship, screeching at any person they saw. Said person were as good as dead, since they would never be seen again. There is one tale where the writer didn't seem to be to serious with it, and told of a north-Norwegian man who was drunk and found a droug sitting on a wine barrel peacefully looking out to the sea. The drunk man poked the draug with a sharp stick, which made the draug jump of the barrel and run out into the sea. Then the draug proceeded to chase the man around the village in what was written in a way that made it look like a Tom and Jerry type chase through the entire night. There's even a toilet draug for some reason.
When I herad that immediantly start playing Ocean Man in my head. It´s a great song.
Wonderful story. First introduced to me through Skyrim then later in my journey into paganism. Used get friends making jokes about me being a zombie but after finding out more about Draugr over the years I find them a more flattering comparison especially due to my heighten late night activity. Wish I found this channle earlier. Was actually talking about the Draugr the other night.
Supernatural zombies are much rude than the modern flesh eating ghouls from Romero movies.
There's one variation of the Norse undead you didn't mention, and that's the Aptirgangr, which translates to afterwalker.
They share similar characteristics to the Draugr, but mostly stay around their burial mounds and can increase the size and body mass.
A kind of zombi Hulk?
Can we get one on Fearsome critters? Like the Hidebehind, Agropelter or the Sidehill gouger? Growing up where the lumber industry had been huge in the early 1900's I've always loved all the old tall tales.
In Norway we have a saying
"did the toilet-draugr take you?"
If somone takes too long in the toilet.
"Do-Draugen"
Mermaids/Sirens would have a lot of content to cover. There seems to be so many different versions, it’d be interesting to learn about them
Kuchisake-onna would be fascinating! It’s a cool Japanese urban legend/mythical creature that has changed with the times.
Also psychopomps. Most cultures have them and they’re always fascinating. Thanks for making such a great show 😊
It´s a very good japanese revenant. Other could be the lifeforce stealling zombie called Hone onna.
I would pronounce it 'howgboo-ee'. It means mound dweller (burial mound dweller).
Like Sutton Hoo?
It's pronounced "Hoig-boo-ee".
One of the best modern adaptations of Draugur are found in the MMORPG *The Secret World.*
Even M R James created his own called William Ager for his tale A Warning to the Curious.
so excited for this show!
I just binged 8 of these to get here. All my days of playing Skyrim lead to this moment.
How to handle a Draugr: Fus
Ro
Da!
This has been a cool episode (pun not intended). I've learnt things I haven't before, as Vikings and Nordic traditions weren't a part of my education.
Would you consider taking a look at the Bunyip from Australia? I haven't seen it spoke about in many shows like this, and would love to hear your take on it.
The idea that the undead can find their way back the way they were carried to their burial existed in Sweden for a very long time. I used to live close to one of the older cemeteries, where the old local church (that later burnt down in the 19th century), stood. The cemetery is not very big, but it is surrounded by a wall of stones that's above waist height and every local knew that in one corner of the cemetery there would be 3 protruding rocks from the wall that made a staircase, where the coffins would be carried over. This was to ensure that the dead, if they reawoke, would never be able to find their way out of the cemetery, because there was no stones on the other side they could climb back over.
True story. I really find these kinds of norse tales fascinating, because while some of the stories aren't common in the area you live in, some of the believes are.
I was an adventurer like you once, then I took an arrow to the knee.
They need to do more promotion for this channel because I didn't even know it existed and I'm all over the PBS other channels
Need episode about eastern slavic folklore. Leshy or Kuroliszek are top candidates
Baba Yaga!
Maybe about Vodinoi?
there's an episode on the leshy
IDK if you saw it already
It would be interesting to learn more about celtic mythology (ex.Kelpie), and the greek one (ex. "Mora" and "Lamia").
Are the kelpies monsters? They're creatures, of course, but are they monstrous as well? (Crash Course Mythology had a video that discussed this distinction very well.)
@@CSHallo I'm not an expert of course but I would consider them to be, given that they are portrayed as evil creatures that lure and eat children.
@@anastasiaevatsst Ah! I did not know about the children-eating bit. So, yes, I agree, an episode on kelpies would fit (and educate me).
For me, a monster is any entity whose perceived deviance in form, function, or action, contributes to a negative mythology surrounding it.
So kelpies definitely count for me.
"dragor" oh boii, the american pronounciation of old norse words is really hilarious at times :D
Older daughter would like Kitsune. (She has been a Kitsune for the past two Halloweens). Younger daughter would like Cerberus. At age 6, she memorized the Cerberus entry in her monster book. (now age 8)
Some of my favourite monsters: Kappas and Aswangs.
Thunderbirds, Leprechauns, and Doppelgängers would make for good Monstrum episodes imo
It would be great to see you do a video about the Rougarou: the Cajun Werewolf.
While you level up Lockpicking, the draugr are *TRAINING*
I would love to see you talking about the creatures of Lovecraft in the Cthulhu mythos !
Now that could be interesting…
YEEEESSSSS PLEEEAAASEEE
Am I the only one who discovered this channel and is devouring all the videos in less than a week?
4:28 "I want to talk to the manager"
I think Draugr can only really be Warriors that are dead.
The GOT walkers are generally warriors, because they are normally the people that faced the walkers, but they can be anyone even children.
Great video
Ooh I love this! Ancient Norse culture has always fascinated me
Sweet! I've been looking for a monster myth/anthropology channel for awhile now.
Seems normal to me (cooking dinner naked)
My Friend: What's wrong with you
I can concur, the corpse door is an ancient belief and was carried out until past the middle ages. In our region wetraditionally had 2 well known churches, the modern church and the old church. The old church burnt down in the mid 19th century, but the cemetary was used and is still used until this day. We locals learn that if you go to the oldest parts of the older cemetery, you can find 3 protruding stones in the stone wall on the outside. When corpses were to be buried the people would carry the coffins over the wall, but there are no stones on the inside of the wall, so once the dead had been carried inside they would never be able to walk out from it.
While this is lost in modern practise, I think it is fascinating to see how superstitious people used to be, or maybe they were not. It can get quite dark here, who knows what is out there.
Cremation - why the Indian monster compendium does not include zombies of any kind.
Also Gorguna, you go GIRL! Don't even trip on the habits of your peers. YOU DO YOU!
The vetala is for me a zombie/vampire hybrid.
In modern times, the definition of a zombie implies a big extension of the walking dead around the world. A corpse possessed by a demon, a corpse returning for vengeance, a corpse revived by a mad scientist, a corpse created using body parts, and corpses revived by black magic. Living skeletons and mummies are consider zombies too.
The term born in Haiti, but means something like walking ghost, walking corpse, walking dead.
"They must have some weakness." - "I found it! Without their heads, they're powerless!"
Could you talk about the Midgard serpent jormingandr 🐍 might’ve butchered the name 😂
Jormungundr (there are other ways you could spell it
I'm impatiently looking forward to seeing way more mythical and legendary videos from Monstrum. Thanks
I'd love to see a video about the Ahuizotl of Mesoamerican myth.
While I really appreciated the video you made, I can't help but feel that you INTENTIONALLY chose the narrative of the undead as a lead in to your real objective; the introduction to the nordic warrior maiden saga which is similar to China's Mulan, and the well known story in Japan of a Legendary female pearl diver who battles a terrible underwater sea beast in order to rescue a prince, but refuses to marry him as t would mean that she would have to leave her first and only love - the Sea. I will admit that I can't remember the maiden's name right now, but it's one of my favorite folklore stories from Japan.
I'd love to see a better representation of celtic beings: Wulver (the Scottish werewolf fisherman), the dullahan, banshees, pucas, barghest, there's plenty of really interesting stuff. Seems like a great new channel!
You must be reading our minds...
Glad to see the Dullahan so quick. I was thinking about it more, and the other (in my opinion) underepresented mythology that could use more love is the Slavic tradition.
This is going to be my new favorite channel.
0:49 The Second I Left
Same.
I play World of Warcraft. The Draugr remind me of the scourge and death knights. The area that we fight the scourge is called Northrend, which does have heavy Nordic influence.
I first heard this in game of thrones I remember Draugrs being a enemy in God of war 4.
Goddamn, you wrote down your bibliography in the description. Mad mad respect.
I would love to see your take on the Piasa Bird.
I'd love to see a video about mo‘o, the Polynesian mythological monster lizard. I'm familiar with the Hawaiian version... you can learn a lot about which rivers and streams are unsafe to swim in by knowing your mo‘o lore!
Great video. Chupacabra next please!
Here in Norway its called Draug today. and they are now known as a person who didnt get a proper burial. They are a bad omen, as he come sailing in his half boat. if you ever get onboard his boat you will never return. he can also ask for a ride, and then its best to say no , and also stay in port. They are also known for their shouting screams, like the nazgul in LOTR
Could you please talk about fairies?
Sidhe!
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Bain Sidhe.
S3MS21 some things considered fairies are just nightmare fuel ruclips.net/video/NEUCF-AA5WM/видео.html
This is by far the best series I've found on RUclips in a while! The hostess is knowledge & very interesting to listen to. I look forward to seeing more!
How about a video about monsters from Inuit legends, e.g. the amautalik?
Many memories of playing Skyrim at 2 am and hearing the footsteps of the draugr, psyching myself out for another fight and jumping out of my skin when one snuck up on me.
Skinwalkers!!! Or wendigos!!!
@Storied,
Correction yes viking is a profession but its not just raiding its also trading. the term viking comes from the term saying that a band of people or person went viking. "Going viking" entails bringing riches back home in the from of either physical goods aquired through raiding or trading or battle honour.
vikings were raiders and they did that A LOT but they traded and hired out their services A LOT TOO!
thanks for listening have a pleasant day.
obs: Caps are used to highlight where my tone would go up to highlight something. i.e., not screaming.
Naga and Nagini of India.
"You obviously know them from your studies..."
Hmm... Not really...
"...Or from playing Skyrim."
YES!!!
PLEASE DO THE LESHY, TREE PEOPLE THAT INSPIRED THE ENTS OF LORD OF THE RINGS!!
I am so thrilled about this series! Monsters and Myths are one of my favorite secret subjects! Hope to see multiple videos on Sasquatch and the Boggy Creek Monster in particular!