| Summary: | Introduktion til juristen og homopioneren Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1824-1882) og hans fortælling "Manor" (1885) In 1885, the German lawyer, writer and gay rights’ activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895) published a collection of eccentric gothic stories, “Sailors’ tales”. The stories take place in the North Atlantic in a pre-Christian era. Two of them are situated on the Faroe Islands and one of these,”Manor”, is a vampire story with an explicitlyhomoerotic theme. A young sailor, Manor, loves his young boy, Har, so much that when Manor drowns, he does not stop visiting the boy. At night, the dead lover leaves his grave, swims across the sound and quenches his thirst by sucking on Har’s breast. After several attempts of nailing Manor to his coffin, the nightly visits cease, but Har withers away and ends up dying. The two lovers are buried in the same grave. Ulrichs used the story to emphasise the strength and willingness to sacrifice which characterize male homosexual love, or in his words: the love of ”urnings”. The short story is translated into Danish and introduced by literary scholar Dag Heede.
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