Case file · Haunting
The Deacon of Myrká
Iceland's most famous ghost story, printed by Jón Árnason in 1862: a deacon drowned crossing a river still came to fetch his sweetheart for the Christmas feast, chanting 'Garún, Garún'.
1862 CE · 65.66, -18.33 · status: legend
The account
She saw his skull through the back of his hood and escaped by holding the church bell-rope. The farm of Myrká in Hörgárdalur is still pointed out.