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the Norse undead that guards its gold by getting bigger, meaner, and impossibly heavy.
means In Norse mythology and saga, a draugr is an animated corpse that haunts its burial mound or home, possessing superhuman strength and often jealously guarding the treasure buried with it.
from From Old Norse draugr, meaning "ghost" or "phantom," with roots in a Proto-Germanic word possibly related to ideas of deception or harm — a cousin to terms suggesting something illusory or treacherous. The word survives in modern Icelandic (draugur) and Norwegian, where the dead, in saga literature, did not drift as wispy spirits but rose bodily from their graves, swollen and corpse-blue, to wrestle the living.
- size shift
- Can swell to monstrous bulk at will.
- home turf
- Lurks in its own burial mound, hoarding treasure.
- deadly skills
- Drives victims mad, crushes livestock, walks through stone.
- true death
- Must be beheaded, then burned to ash.
- name meaning
- Roughly means the one who walks after death.
draugr of herjolfsnes — greenlandic viking mummies preserved in permafrost, discovered 1921 with intact skin and clothing