Selkolla
Ringkasan
Selkolla ("kepala anjing laut") adalah makhluk gaib dalam cerita rakyat Islandia, perempuan cantik yang kadang berkepala anjing laut, musuh Uskup Guðmundur Arason.
Selkolla ('seal-head') is a supernatural being of Icelandic folklore, a fair woman sometimes seen with a seal's head, remembered as the adversary of Bishop Guðmundur Arason.
Kisah dan tradisi
Selkolla adalah makhluk gaib dalam cerita rakyat Islandia: perempuan cantik yang kadang terlihat berkepala anjing laut. Ia terutama dikenal sebagai lawan Uskup Guðmundur Arason (1161–1237), dan kisahnya terkenal karena memadukan gagasan Kristen dengan konsep tradisi Skandinavia pra-Kristen. Sumber abad pertengahan utamanya adalah versi B dan D Guðmundar saga Arasonar, dalam bagian yang kini disebut Selkollu þáttr; ia pertama kali disebut dalam Íslendinga saga karya Sturla Þórðarson. Kisah ini juga dianggap mengingatkan pada cerita rakyat yang lebih kemudian tentang anak-anak orang tersembunyi dan hantu anak. Kisahnya berlatar di Vestfirðir (Fjord Barat). Sepasang suami-istri yang membawa bayi perempuan untuk dibaptis berhenti di dekat batu besar Miklisteinn untuk bersenggama; ketika kembali, bayi itu sudah hitam dan mati, lalu hidup lagi dalam rupa yang begitu mengerikan sehingga mereka tak berani menyentuhnya, dan kemudian lenyap. Tak lama muncul di daerah itu seorang perempuan yang kadang berwajah biasa, kadang berkepala anjing laut, "setan tengah hari" yang berkeliaran siang dan malam. Dalam rupa istri seorang petani, Selkolla mencoba merayu petani itu, lalu menghalangi jalannya sehingga ia jatuh sakit dan kehilangan kejantanannya; ia juga mencungkil mata seorang kerabat yang menjaga petani itu. Uskup Guðmundur akhirnya mengusirnya dengan kata-kata "far niðr, fjandi" ("turunlah, setan") dan keesokan harinya dengan mendirikan tujuh salib.
Selkolla is a supernatural being of Icelandic folklore: a fair woman who is sometimes seen with a seal's head. She is known above all as an opponent of Bishop Guðmundur Arason (1161–1237), and her tales are noted for blending Christian ideas with concepts from pre-Christian Scandinavian tradition. Her main medieval source is versions B and D of Guðmundar saga Arasonar, in the episode now called Selkollu þáttr; she is first mentioned in Sturla Þórðarson's Íslendinga saga. The tale is also thought to recall later folk stories of hidden-folk children and child ghosts. The tale is set in the Westfjords. A couple taking a baby girl to be baptised stopped by the great stone Miklisteinn to have sex; when they returned the child was black and dead, then alive again but so frightful that they dared not touch it, and afterwards it vanished. Soon a woman appeared in the district, sometimes with an ordinary face and sometimes with a seal's head, a 'midday devil' who roamed by day as well as by night. Taking the shape of a farmer's wife, Selkolla tried to seduce him, then blocked his way so that he fell sick and lost his virility; she also burst out the eyes of a kinsman who watched over him. Bishop Guðmundur finally drove her off with the words 'far niðr, fjandi' ('go down, devil') and the next day by raising seven crosses.
Fakta utama
- Budaya / Culture
- Tradisi Islandia
- Kawasan / Region
- Eropa
- Negara / Country
- IS
- Klasifikasi / Classification
- Demon
- Habitat
- Dwelling
- Kemampuan / Abilities
- Berganti rupa
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Uskup Guðmundur mengusir Selkolla untuk kedua kalinya dengan mendirikan tujuh salib.
Bishop Guðmundur drove Selkolla away a second time by setting up seven crosses.