THE DRAUGR SEEN AS ‘THE OTHER’ IN THE FAMILY ICELANDIC SAGAS
THE DRAUGR SEEN AS ‘THE OTHER’ IN THE FAMILY ICELANDIC SAGAS

Summary/Abstract: The Draugr Seen as ‘The Other’ in the Family Icelandic Sagas. The inhabitants of pre-Christian Scandinavia had strong beliefs about life after death, beliefs that seem to have mirrored their life on earth. The following article is a study on the draugar, the revenants, and the possibility of identifying them with the other, the one that is not understood. According to the written sources there are two types of corporeal revenants, the haug-búi and the aptrgangr. Both can be identified with the foreign and the strange, the one not accepted by the rest of the people, either through their non-human characteristics and strength or through their exclusion from the society while both alive and dead.

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