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A Gjenganger (Norwegian: Gjenganger/Gjenferd/Attergangar Danish: Genganger/Genfærd Swedish: Gengångare) is the term for a revenant, the spirit or ghost of a deceased from the grave, in Scandinavian folklore.

A gjenganger could have several reasons to return from the
afterlife. Murdered people could seldom sleep peacefully in their
graves. The same went for their murderers. People who had committed
suicide often came back as gjengangere, because Christian
tradition held that “self-killers” were fit neither for heaven nor hell.
At other times, people came back from the grave because they had left
something undone. Most often they needed someone to help them do this,
before they could finally be at peace.

The biggest difference between modern ghosts and the gjenganger is that the gjenganger in the Scandinavian tradition took on an entirely corporeal form. It normally had no spectre-like qualities whatsoever. In older traditions the gjenganger
was also very malicious and violent in nature, coming back from the
grave to torment its family and friends. In the way they acted, and in
the extensive precautions their relatives took to make sure they stayed
in their graves, gjengangere are more akin to eastern-European vampires than modern-day ghosts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gjenganger

so, like, forget “sans is an irish revenant.“ you know who the REAL semi-obscure european folklore walking corpse zombie dude in undertale is?

• murdered (well, angry mob’d)
• unfinished business (”There’s just one thing left I want to do. Let’s finish what we started. Let’s free everyone.”) (”There’s something I  have to do. […] It’s time for monsters… To finally go free.“)
• bodily remains (monster dust)
• thoroughly corporeal (moreso that when he was alive)
• harasses friends and family

i solved undertale

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