Case file · Folklore / legend
Galdra-Loftur at Hólar
Icelandic legend tells of Loftur, a student at the Hólar cathedral school in the early 18th century, who tried to raise dead bishops in the cathedral to seize their book of black magic.
1720 CE · 65.73, -19.11 · status: legend
The account
The attempt failed, and he was later dragged under the sea. The story was dramatised by Jóhann Sigurjónsson in 'Galdra-Loftur' (1915).