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Swedish: Gengångare
Spöke(ghost) is the most commonly used word for an afterlife apparition.
It is taught to children like in the saga Spöket Laban- the kind young ghost that must learn to frighten little children, as he is not very good at it .
A zombie is material - rotten, but very strong (and isn&#;t that a great contradiction?) flesh.
Of course the contradiction can be explained by the (originally Haitian) magic behind its resurrection.
I&#;m not sure a gengångarewould be fleshy, but I wouldn&#;t rule it out.
As it is an old word, I&#;m sure the meaning has changed a bit, and to a good extent have been replaced by modern (more specific) words as zombie.
By the way revenirin French means "return" or literally "come again", so it&#;s a good translation.
Giski: dubbelgångaremeans "lookalike". As does the word Doppelgänger - in German. Let&#;s not re-import it with yet another meaning .
Aldarad: thanks for the Draug - the viking horror.
I find gengångareslightly more spookish, or actually more of a general word, without much connotations.
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Gjenganger
Nordic revenant folklore
This article is about revenants in Nordic folklore. For other uses, see Revenant.
In Nordic folklore; Danish: genganger, Norwegian: gjenganger, Swedish: gengångare ("(a)gain-walker"), among more, is a term for a revenant, the spirit or ghost of a deceased from the grave,[1] meaning "someone which goes again", from the Scandinavian verb of "going again" (Swedish: gå igen) in the sense of a deceased person haunting post-mortem;[2] compare German: Wiedergänger ("Re-walker").
Other forms include: Icelandic: afturganga, Norwegian: attergangar, stemming from Old Norse: aptrgangr ("re-walker"); Danish: genfærd, Norwegian: gjenferd ("again-travel or after-journey").
Etymology
[edit]Gjenganger, and thereof, consists of two parts; the prefix gen- (Norwegian: gjen-), a shortened form of igen (Norwegian: igjen), the same as "again" → (a)gain; and the suffix -ganger (Swedish: -gångare), "-ganger, -goer, -walker" (compare doppelganger); thus meaning "again-walker" (lit.&#;'gainganger'), "walking again", as in "walking after death". It is related to the Scandinavian verb of "going aga
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