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Deacon of Myrká

Nazývaný aj: Djákninn á Myrká, Deacon of Dark River

The Deacon of Myrká is Iceland's best-known tale of the returning dead. A drowned clergyman rides out of his grave on Christmas Eve to collect the woman he had promised to bring to the feast, and tries to drag her into the grave with him. It is a local form of the international 'dead bridegroom' story, but the deacon is a solid corpse with a smashed skull. The tale remains a fixture of Icelandic art and literature.1

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Prvý záznam
1860
First printed in Konrad Maurer's Isländische Volkssagen der Gegenwart (1860), then in Jón Árnason's collection (1862)
Pôvod
Icelandic
Island
Čo ho spôsobuje
Iné
A drowned man keeps the appointment he made in life.
Ako sa ním stanete
A deacon drowned in the river Hörgá with a head wound a week before Christmas, having promised to fetch his fiancée for the feast.
Ako sa pohybuje
Bežia
Arrives on horseback and carries the woman off at a gallop to the churchyard.
Inteligencia
Múdry
Slabé miesta
  • ringing the church bell
  • an exorcist, who finally laid him

Kedy sa prvýkrát objavil?

First printed in Konrad Maurer's Isländische Volkssagen der Gegenwart (1860), then in Jón Árnason's collection (1862)

terénne poznámky

Čo hovoria zdroje

1

His fiancée Guðrún had not heard that he was dead1

2

As they ride, his hat tips forward and she sees the bare skull through the wound1

3

He calls her 'Garún' because the Icelandic dead cannot pronounce Guð, 'God'1

4

At the open grave he seizes only the empty sleeve of her coat1

5

She saves herself by hauling on the bell rope until people come1

Dokázali by ste mu ujsť?

Rýchlostná trieda podľa opisu v zdrojoch (bežia), nie meranie.

Vy, pri chôdzi asi 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
Vy, pri behu asi 10 km/h (6.2 mph)
Šprintujúci dospelý v kondícii asi 24 km/h (15 mph)
Deacon of Myrká asi 24 km/h (15 mph)
Rýchly cyklista asi 37 km/h (23 mph)

Zdroje

  1. Dj%C3%A1kninn %C3%A1 Myrk%C3%A1 - Wikipedia

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