Frithcast Episode 92 - The Dark of the Night - Draugar and the Dead

Episode 92 – The Dark of the Night: Draugr and the Dead

Things we talk about in this episode:

Opening Music:

'Ancient Whispers I' by P C III, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Ad_Astra_Vol_1/03_Ancient_Whispers_I]

Closing Music:

'Round II - The Ancients' by Learning Music, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence

[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Learning_Music/An_End_Like_This/32_Round_II_-_The_Ancients]

Background fire ambience by inchadney from freesound.org

 

AA Milne – author of Winnie the Pooh: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Winnie_the_Pooh

Prow-dragon – a figurehead that was fitted to ships prows to scare the landspirits for the lands targeted by raiders. Care was taken to take them off when returning home as not to scare the landspirits of the homeleands.

Stargate the film: (1994) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/

Sebastian from The Little Mermaid (1989) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097757/

Doppelganger: https://www.bustle.com/articles/180838-5-creepy-facts-about-doppelgangers-because-theyre-more-common-than-youd-think

‘Gang Aft Aglaey’ – Robert Burns poem ‘To a Mouse’

The burial space as a house: Thorstein is invited to the home of the dead in Þorsteins ááttr uxafots

Birds flying over draugr barrows and dying: flying over Thorolfs grave: Curran, Bob (2005). Vampires: A Field Guide to the Creatures that Stalk the Night. Career Press. pp. 81–93.

Cattle being driven mad by going near barrows with draugr in: ibid

Draugr going into the earth: Hrapp in Laxdaela Saga

Dr Who (Sylvester McCoy) episodes ‘Curse of Fenric’ https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Curse_of_Fenric_(TV_story)

The shepherd defending against a draugr and being turned into one: Eyrbyggja saga

Draugr riding a house: Grettirs Saga

Lasombre, Tremere and Tzimiche – from White Wolf Vampire role play system

Tying toes with twine (and other precautions): H.F. Feilberg, "The Corpse-Door: A Danish Survival," in Folklore 18 (1907), p. 366

Corpse -doors: H.F. Feilberg, "The Corpse-Door: A Danish Survival," in Folklore 18 (1907), p. 366

Eyrbyggja saga – the ‘door doom’ or boring the undead with lawyers.

Foxfire or flames on a Draugr barrow: Grettirs Saga – Grettir sees a flame on the barrow of Kar the Old.

Beowulf parallels: Chadwick “The Monsters and Beowulf.” In The Anglo-Saxons: Studies in Some Aspects of Their History and Culture Presented to Bruce Dickens. Ed. by Peter Clemoes. London: Bowes and Bowes. pp. 171-203.

and

Nicholas K. Kiessling, "Grendel: A New Aspect," Modern Philology, 65 (1968), p. 201

and

Viking Answer Lady http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ghosts.shtml

The draugr who gloms his friends ear off: the story of Arum and Asmund: Palsson and Edwards, "Egils saga einhenda ok Asmundar saga berserkjabana," in Gautrek's Saga and Other Medieval Tales, pp. 99-101

 

There’s other sources that talk about the Norse restless dead:

Chadwick, N. K. (1946). "Norse ghosts: A study in the Draugr and the Haugbúi". Folklore. 57 (2): 50–65.

http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/ghosts.shtml

Hilda Ellis-Davidson, "The Hill of the Dragon: Anglo-Saxon Burial Mounds in Literature and Archaeology," in Folklore 64(1950), pp. 173-174

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