"From Beneath the Waves": Sea-Draugr and the Popular Conscience

• Main Author: Alexander Hay
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: John Libbey Publishing Ltd. 2018
• Subjects: Mythology And Folklore; Cultural Studies; Folklore; Journalism; Maritime History; Horror Film; Horror Cinema; Icelandic Sagas; Horror Literature; Maritime Studies; Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture; Iceland; Sea Monsters; Lucio Fulci; Titanic; Darkest Dungeon; Coleridge
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt20krz85.6

The sea looms large in human psychology, both as a source of guilt and a metaphor for it. One particularly evocative metaphor is in the form of the sea-draugr, a reanimated drowned corpse first mentioned in the Icelandic sagas, which in both its original form and its more modern successors, serves a...