Norwegian fishermen weren't scared of drowning. they were scared of WHO'd be rowing the half-boat

My grandmother was from Nordland coast and the thing she'd never fully explain was the draug. Not a vampire-zombie like the saga draugr that sits on a barrow guarding gold — the SEA one, draugen. It's whoever drowned and never got a churchyard burial. Comes back bloated, seaweed in the beard, skin g……