of aptrganga) and reimleikar (‘haunting’) in these medieval sagas are still commonly discussed as a draugr in various scholarly works, or the draugar and the haugbúar are lumped into one. īeings not specifically called draugar, but actually only referred to as aptrgǫngur (‘revenants’, pl. Yet Glámr is still routinely referred to as a draugr. Unlike Kárr inn gamli (Kar the Old) in Grettis saga, who is specifically called a draugr, Glámr the ghost in the same saga is never explicitly called a draugr in the text, though called a "troll" in it. The word is hypothetically traced to Proto-Indo European stem * dʰrowgʰos "phantom", from * dʰrewgʰ- "deceive" (see also Avestan " druj"). In Swedish, draug is a modern loanword from West Norse, as the native Swedish form drög has acquired the meaning of "a pale, ineffectual, and slow-minded person that drags himself along". Tolkien employed this term in his novels, though "barrow-wight" is actually a rendering of haugbúinn (literally the ‘howe-dweller’), otherwise translated as "barrow-dweller". The draugr was referred to as " barrow-wight" in the 1869 translation of Grettis saga, long before J. Often the draugr is regarded not so much as a ghost but a revenant, i.e., the reanimated of the deceased inside the burial mound (as in the example of Kárr inn gamli in Grettis saga). Old Norse draugr is defined as "a ghost, spirit, esp. They are revenants, or animated corpses with a corporeal body, rather than ghosts which possess intangible spiritual bodies.
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