Medievalists.net » Draugar http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Drauginir: Revenants in Old Icelandic Sagas http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/22/inn-draugar-the-zombie-in-the-icelandic-sagas/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/22/inn-draugar-the-zombie-in-the-icelandic-sagas/#comments Sat, 22 Dec 2012 05:14:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38208 It is this humanity in a monster that helps to show why these draugar fascinate us so much. The “others” that exist outside the boundaries of society: the weird old ladies that people label as evil witches, the misshapen, the “freaks” that Tod Browning made famous are funhouse mirror images of ourselves.

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