Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.1966, Síða 101

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E411.10. Persons who die violent or occidental deaths cannot rest in grave. Grett ch.
32-35: Glåmr; Svarfd ch. 26-32: Klaufi.
E412. Person under religious ban cannot rest in grave. Cf. Gering I 26-27: bishop
drives excommunicated dead from graveyard.
E414. Drownedperson cannot rest in peace. Eyrb LIV 1 ff., cf. Fær ch. 40.
E414.1. Person otherwise killed by accident cannot rest in grave. Cf. E411.10.
E420. Appearance of revenant.
E421. Spectral ghosts. Eyrb ch. 33.
E421.3. Luminous ghosts. Cf. E742.
E421.3.7. Flames issue from corpse’s mouth. HromGr 368-69 ch. 4: »draugr« eats
fire so that flames issue from his mouth.
E422. The living corpse. Cf. Uno Harva in Arv 1945 101 ff. »Det levande liket«.
E422.1. Body of living corpse.
E422.1.1 Headless revenant.
E422.1.1.4. Headless ghost carries head under arm. Svarfd ch. 23; Fær ch. 40: in
the hånd.
E422.1.8. Revenant with peculiar {bowed) nails. Cf. F531.1.6.1. HromGr 370 ch. 4.
E423. Revenant in anitnal form. Cf. E425.1.7.
E423.2. Revenant as wild animal.
E423.2.5. Revenant as seal. Cf. E425.1.7.
E425. Revenant in human form.
E425.1. Revenant as woman.
E425.1.7. Revenant as woman with seal's head. Bisk I 605-8, II 77-87; Sturl I 290:
»Selkolla«.
E430. Defense against ghosts and the dead. Vries 66.
E431. Precautions at funer al against revenant. Cf. V60.
E431.7. Beheaded man's head laid at feet to prevent return. Svarfd ch. 22.
E431.7.1. Beheaded man's head laid at back to prevent return. Grett XVIII11, XXXV
21; BårdSn 43 ch. 20; ÅnB 346 ch. 5.
E431.7.2. Decapitating in order to prevent return. Cf. E446.3.
E431.7.2.1. Head of beheaded man separated from body. Cf. V61.4.
E431.9. Askes of dead thrown on water to prevent return. Cf. E431.13. Eyrb LXIII 6;
Laxd XXIV 29; HålfdB 13 ch. 8; J6nL 10, cf. ZDPh XXVI 17.
(E431.9.1. Head of corpse thrown on water to prevent return.)
E431.9.2. Corpses thrown in water to prevent return. HålfdBr 575 ch. 7; OOdd 34-35
(FAS II 178, 514, ch. VIII 6): (in order) that they may not hurt through »fjol-
kyngi«; Vilm 176 ch. 16; HålfdE XVIII 4 (FAS III 547).
E431.10. Corpse buried under stone so that sun will not shine on him again.
E431.10.1. Corpse buried under stones. Hei6arvlga ch. 9: in order to prevent return(?).
E431.13. Corpse burned to prevent return. Cf. E431.9; E446.2; G275.3. EirikR 216
ch. 6; OOdd 130 (FAS II 246); HålfdE XVII 5, 11 (ib. III 545, 546); ForstVik
403 ch. 8; Ålafl XVI 4; Sigb 251 ch. 53; ForstUxaf 260 (FMS III 129); ÅsmFl