Monday, 15 January 2018

Draugur

"'Draugur!' Deor said. 'Aptrgangr, again-walkers, hungry for the blood and flesh of the living.'"
-SM Stirling, The Sea Peoples (New York, 2017), Chapter Eighteen, p. 271.

For draug in Poul Anderson's works, see here. A draug is also called a drow. See here.

I believe that, in our universe, the dead stay dead.

3 comments:

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Kaor, Paul!

Unless, of course, as I believe sometimes has happened, God restores a dead person back to life. It was Christ's raising of Lazarus from death which was the last straw for the Sanhedrin, causing them to decide He had to die.

Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,
That is the sequence of events in the Fourth Gospel. I do not think that the four Gospels can be fitted into a single coherent narrative.
Paul.

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Kaor, Paul!

And this minimizing of what can be historically known about Christ by those who deny the reliability of the gospels is one of the many things I disagree with. Fr. John Meir, in his FOUR MARGINAL JEW books (the first three of which I've read) has argued in exhaustive detail for the gospels containing far more history than "Modernists" say was the case. That, along with the evidence and arguments in favor of Matthean Priority and an earlier dating for all three of the Synoptics (such as in Dungan's A HISTORY OF THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM and Farmer's THE GOSPEL OF JESUS) has convincingly demolished the Modernist case.

Sean