The Half-Lifeless Írafells-Móri Haunting For Generations

Elevating the Lifeless for Vengeance

The sorcerer selected for this a younger boy, of whom the story says that he had died of publicity outside between the farms. When he rose from the lifeless, he was heat and never even fully lifeless earlier than being resurrected, and was despatched out, ordered to hang-out the couple at Möðruvellir and their descendants for 9 generations.

The numerous males who noticed the Írafells-Móri described him in order that he wears grey trousers under and a brownish coat on the physique, with a black broad-brimmed hat on his head, and there was a notch or giant hole within the brim above the left eye. When Móri got here south he connected himself to Möðruvellir as instructed and killed livestock and spoiled meals. However there are not any examples of Móri instantly killing folks.

One winter, Kurt and his spouse had two calves that the Írafells-Móri drove over the cliffs the next summer time, they usually had been discovered lifeless under. One other time, Kort had a mare and a foal grazing within the dwelling pastures at Möðruvellir. Late in the summertime males noticed the foal working as if it had gone mad round a stone, after which it fell down lifeless. After they got here to it the foal lay lifeless with its behind, caught its rectum on the stone and tore all its guts out. This was attributed to Móri.

Not like most ghosts, the Móri was thought to haven’t been fully lifeless earlier than being turned. Due to this, the ghost wanted to eat and was even rationed meals at each Möðruvellir and when he went to stay at Írafell to hang-out their son, Magnús Kortsson.

Móri would generally sit on the barn ground and gnaw on the milk troughs together with his paws or knock them down, splash curd each on Ingibjörg and everywhere in the rafters, or throw turf and stones into the meals wherever it was, spoiling it with it if he wasn’t fed. As soon as they forgot to feed Móri within the night and within the morning, they noticed him sitting within the barn together with his palms down in every cheese barrel, each munching on the cheese and sprinkling it with crumbs. After that, they had been cautious to not overlook to feed him.

After this Kort moved away from Möðruvellir and went to Flekkudal in Eyjafjörður, however Móri adopted them there and plagued them at least earlier than till his dying in 1821. 

The Haunting of Magnús Kortsson

After the dying of Kortur Heitin (1821), Móri first adopted his eldest son Magnús, who lived for a very long time on Írafell, as talked about above, and since Móri was the longest connected to it, he was referred to as Írafells-Móri, and that identify has since caught with him.

It appears that there have been fewer evil visits earlier than Kort the Elder than to a few of his youngsters and grandchildren from his first spouse, whether or not it’s as a result of it has been longer since he was alive and people tales have subsequently pale from folks’s reminiscence or Mór was extra involved with the visits when he started to comply with Kort’s youngsters or the third factor that some suppose is most probably is that he didn’t dare to wade as a lot whereas Kort was alive as after he died.

It wasn’t simply meals that Móri wanted; he additionally felt he wanted to relaxation like anybody else, and it’s stated that after he began following Magnús Kortsson to Írafell the place he acquired his identify, he all the time needed to depart a mattress area empty for him reverse his personal. Nobody besides the ghost was purported to lie in it. It additionally had a separate meals provide.

As soon as folks wanted a spot to remain for the evening at Írafell. Later that night, a boy got here to the home and requested to remain there. Magnús stated he might keep in the home, however had no place however the ground to sleep except he dared to sleep within the ghost’s mattress. The boy accepted and braved himself to get into the mattress, however when he fell asleep, one thing horrible stirred him in his sleep and woke him up. He was unable to sleep nicely that evening.

The following day the climate was dangerous in order that the friends couldn’t journey and needed to keep at Írafell one other evening. That night, some boys who lived at Írafell and knew Móri and had typically been in a struggle with him got here and caught knives throughout the mattress in order that the factors caught out all over the place. That evening the boy slept soundly and the lads had been grateful that Móri had not dared to assault him due to the knives.

As soon as Magnus went to Seltjarnarnes when there was a variety of fishing there, however since he had no common place on any of the boats, he sailed with all of them and sat somewhere else daily. For 2 days, he acquired a seat at farmer Sigurður’s in Hrólfskáli. All of them seen that Magnus was by no means alone, and on the third morning they usually set sail, they began whispering about seeing one thing trying like a russet wool or ball of hair coming with Magnus. As a result of they didn’t wish to carry any dangerous luck with them to the ocean, and requested him to depart the boat. 

The Haunting of Björn Kortsson

It stated Björn Kortsson had twice suffered grievous affliction like his different brothers. As soon as a person met Björn touring north, and after they meant to experience previous one another his horses shied, and it was the assumption of males that that they had seen the ghost and feared him, although the person himself didn’t see him. 

On one other event it was that the farm at Mýdal in Mosfellssveit stood open one winter night in moonlight and honest climate. One of many family got here from someplace, and when he got here into the doorway he noticed a boy additional contained in the door whom he didn’t acknowledge, however thought to himself that this have to be Írafells-Móri, from the outline he had heard of him. The person now thought to nook Móri inside to deal with him and shut the door. Then he let his palms sweep via the doorway and felt as if one thing got here towards him, however when he meant to grab it, it slipped away from him once more in order that he couldn’t grasp it. However early the following morning Björn Kortsson got here to Mýdal.

Björn was, like all that household, a good-natured and nicely revered man. It’s stated that he was common with the women and at the least three wanted him when he was a younger man at Hjálmholt. He used to joke that it was Mori they had been after, as everybody knew that he was adopted. 

As time went on although, Björn joked much less and fewer as insanity stricken him within the later years of his life, and it wasn’t simple to stay with him. Evidently a variety of the members of the family had this psychological sickness that usually accompanies tales of ghosts haunting households. The sickness was not seen as pure although, and was blamed on Móri.

The Haunting of Einar Kortsson

Einar Kortsson, who had been dwelling in Tjarnarhús close to Lambastaðir for a very long time, as soon as left dwelling and was going as much as Kjós to search out his family members there. It was early within the winter and when he arrived there it was getting darkish. He continued on foot, and arrived after the vigil at Skrauthólar in Kjalarnes. Though Einar was not completely unfamiliar with the place, he didn’t wish to trigger any bother or wake folks up after they had been all simply asleep. So he determined to look within the barn to see if he might discover a place to remain for the evening. 

The following morning he excused himself to the townspeople who welcomed him. They did nevertheless suppose that the Mori had made manner for his or her grasp, because the evening earlier than, a cow had damaged its neck and was discovered lifeless in the identical stall Einar went to sleep in. The Mori was additionally regarded as behind the dying of Einar’s favourite horse. One morning late in Einar’s time, Gráni lay lifeless within the air so tightly in entrance of the farm door in Tjarnarhúsi that nobody might get in or out of him till the door was taken off its hinges. This was thought to have been attributable to Móri.

Móri performed numerous different methods on Einar whereas he adopted him. One was that Einar generally turned like a disfigured man within the face or like a leper, with eruptions of scabs and boils and scratches as if a cat had clawed him, but when he was requested how he had gotten them he would say nothing about it. At instances these eruptions disappeared once more, and this was counted amongst different unusual issues which are stated to comply with the Kort household and be attributed to Móri. 

Males additionally typically noticed Móri using across the homes at Einar’s, each the farmhouses and likewise a shed that he owned, and it was believed that Móri stayed typically down by the ocean, for a lot of instances the canine there went mad and broke out in barking and noise across the shed, although no males nor animals had been seen shifting close to it.

The Haunting of Kort Kortsson

Not many tales have gone about of hauntings earlier than Kort Kortsson the elder, however males nonetheless consider they’ll totally say that Móri adopted him in order that hurt got here each to others and to himself. Within the winter of 1833 it so occurred that Þorsteinn, a farmer at Þúfukot in Kjós, rowed the winter fishing season at Kjalarnes and went dwelling at Easter, as is the customized of many fishermen whose houses should not distant. 

On that very same day Kort Kortsson in Uppkot in Eyrarhverfi additionally went dwelling, for he too was rowing that season at Kjalarnes. Since Kort was on foot he requested Þorsteinn to hold a number of issues for him. One among these was a sheepskin coat which Þorsteinn tied behind him. Þorsteinn then continued his manner till the roads divided to Þúfukot and Uppkot. Þorsteinn meant to go straight dwelling with out stopping at Uppkot, however when he turned his horse onto the trail that led dwelling to Þúfukot it appeared to him, and he even thought he heard, that somebody seized the sheepskin coat behind him, and in that very same second the horse fell down lifeless below him. This was blamed on Móri, that he had crushed or killed the horse as a result of he had wished Þorsteinn to return the sheepskin coat dwelling to Kort.

Kort was like a lot of his siblings, half-crazed in thoughts, so that usually care needed to be taken that he didn’t do himself hurt, which he typically tried when he was in such a state. In a single such match he acquired maintain of a knife and reduce himself straight throughout the neck, however then somebody got here to him and the knife was taken from him. He was then dropped at a physician who healed him and sewed the wound, however because the stitching had been finished badly, there was all the time one thing odd in Kort’s throat when he swallowed. Individuals consider he died of this wound, which he was regularly reopening when insanity came to visit him.

The Haunting of Solveig Kortsdóttir

Solveig, daughter of Kort, married Magnús, a farmer at Hjallasandur on Kjalarnes, they usually have lived there for many of their farming life. Individuals say that Móri follows her, as with the opposite siblings. 

Magnús and she or he had saved a maidservant named Sigríður. She was as soon as within the kitchen within the night performing some family work. Then the maid stated to her mistress: “What’s crawling there on my again?” and seemed again over her shoulder on the similar time. The housewife stated that nothing was crawling on her. However in that very same second the maid fainted the place she stood. Then the family got here and carried her to her mattress. Afterwards the fainting handed off, however then she was seized with horrible vomiting. And nearly when the vomiting eased, there was a knocking on the farmhouse door. A farmhand heard it additional inside the home and stated: “Be off, whoever you might be,” for he thought that it was the one who had attacked Sigríður the maid. Then they went to the door, and there was Solveig Kortsdóttir, asking for that very same maid who had fainted, for she had some errand along with her. Individuals suppose this was the ghost of Solveig, Írafells-Móri, who pressed so exhausting upon Sigríður.

Kort’s Grandchildren and the Persevering with Haunting of their Household

Magnús at Írafell had 4 youngsters: two named Guðrún, Guðríður, and Guðmundur. As soon as, Guðrún fell ailing, and Móri got here to her the place she lay in a single-room dwelling and knocked down all of the units of cups she owned from a shelf above the window in the identical room the place she lay, they usually went, as one may nicely think about, right into a thousand items. 

The opposite Guðrún married her father’s workman, named Ólafur, they usually have lengthy lived at Reykjakot in Mosfellssveit. She was typically ailing each in thoughts, as so lots of the Kort household have been vulnerable to, and likewise in physique. She has additionally misplaced various youngsters, and that might be partially the reason for her illnesses. It’s stated that Móri, particularly after the dying of Magnús, took up his lodging with the couple Ólafur and Guðrún and that he retains to himself above a big floor-vat which is sunk midway into the pantry ground. When Guðrún is ailing in order that others should take cost of the cooking, it’s stated that Móri units a canine’s head upon himself and is ashamed to take his meals from another than Guðrún.

Magnús of Írafell’s son Guðmundur was haunted by Móri at least his sister Guðríður. One winter, Ásgeir the farmer at Lambastaðir had despatched his son Þorvaldur to Reynivellir for instruction below Reverend Ólafur Pálsson, now provost of Gullbringu- and Kjósar-sýsla. Þorvaldur went dwelling shortly earlier than Christmas to spend the vacation together with his dad and mom, and it had been organized that he can be fetched afterwards if anybody occurred to journey from Kjós.

One night at Lambastaðir, Þorvaldur and his mom Sigríður had been the one two sleeping in the home. It was late at evening and the lights had been put out, when Sigríður abruptly felt unwell and requested her son to mild them once more. Þorvaldur did so, and when he was completed she requested him to fetch her some water to drink, and to take the sunshine with him so he wouldn’t stumble anyplace, though Þorvaldur, although solely twelve years previous on the time, was not afraid of the darkish and didn’t want it for that cause.

So he went for the water into the kitchen, leaving the lamp within the parlor and the parlor door open, in order that the glow reached into the kitchen. He stuffed a glass and was about to return when, as he circled, he noticed a strapping boy come out of the anteroom into the kitchen, although neither of the doorways there had been closed the night earlier than. The boy stood within the glow of the lamp bareheaded, with a broad-brimmed hat in his hand, carrying a brownish coat, elevating his eyebrows roguishly and grinning at Þorvaldur. They seemed each other within the eyes for a short time, for Þorvaldur stated he had not been afraid of him however studied him carefully, and he nonetheless remembers the way it appeared to him that the boy’s entire face was lined with hair. However when Þorvaldur took his eyes off him, he was overcome with dizziness in order that the water spilled from the glass.

Then a sheepdog that had been mendacity within the parlor leapt up with a horrible barking, working via the kitchen and out into the home-field, and several other different canine joined in, conserving it up for a very long time. The following day two males got here down from Kjós to fetch Þorvaldur, and one in all them was Guðmundur Magnússon, who was then dwelling at Káraneskot. Individuals then felt positive that it had been Írafells-Móri whom Þorvaldur had seen that evening.

Einar Kortsson had 4 daughters; two of them are regular, one suffers from a limb-wasting illness, and the fourth is believed to not be fairly proper within the head. Her identify is Guðrún, she is sixteen years previous, and till now nothing had been discovered amiss along with her. She typically complains that “the wretch Móri” is teasing her, pinching her, or in any other case tormenting her. Not too long ago she developed an ailment in her knee which lasted a very long time, and she or he herself stated that it had come about as a result of Móri had shoved her in order that she fell on a stone along with her knee. And simply as she blames Móri for all these mishaps of hers, so there’s discuss that he’s additionally the reason for the woman’s need of understanding, since she is taken into account little greater than a half-wit, and that is regarded as in step with numerous different assaults of Móri towards members of the Kort household.

Kristinn Magnússon (1827-1893) was the son of Solveig Kortsdóttir (1796-1865). Kristinn was a well known shipowner and shipbuilder. Móri, by no means did something horrific after they tjey reached this a part of the descendants. He was extra of a nuisance to the household in response to Kristinn. He informed folks they needed to feed him like they’d another grownup and as his ancestors had finished earlier than him. He would spill his meals and make an enormous mess as per regular. Kristinn spoke typically of the boy, as he referred to as him. He by no means appeared to trouble him, however his presence was typically with Kristinn and if we’re to consider the legends, maybe nonetheless are, though in a extra pale presence within the members of the family branching out in Iceland like a tree.

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Íslenzkar þjóðsögur og æfintýri/Draugasögur/Írafells-Móri – Wikiheimild