The Walking Dead: Draugr and Aptrgangr in Old Norse Literature..

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The Walking Dead: Draugr and Aptrgangr in Old Norse Literature..

Part I: Introduction and Description of the Walking Dead

For the Vikings, the concept of the afterlife was often much more
immediate than glorious skaldic tales of Valholl or the Christian's Heaven: once the dead body was placed within the grave, it was believed to become "animated with a strange life and power" (Hilda Ellis-Davidson. The Road to Hel. Westport CT, Greenwood P., 1943. p. 96). The dead person continued a sort of pseudo-life within the grave, not as a spirit or ghost, but as an actual undead corpse similar in many respects to the "nosferatu" or central European vampire (Ellis-Davidspn, Road to Hel, p. 92).

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