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Sign in to savethumb|Gjenganger tries to claim a new victim for the sea, Thorvald Niss (1932)
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thumb|Gjenganger tries to claim a new victim for the sea, Thorvald Niss (1932)
In Nordic folklore; , , ("(a)gain-walker"), among more, is a term for a revenant or ghost, meaning "someone which goes again", from the Scandinavian verb of "going again" (, ) in the sense, of a deceased walking beyond the grave, haunting post-mortem; compare ("Re-walker").
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