Draugr

"I don't know what sort of eternal wellspring they draw from, but it's clear that the draugr carry only the barest whisper of life in them, and it rekindles nightly while resting in its niche. I now believe that the grotesque
forms that we see in the barrow were, in fact, buried
fully as men and women, and only over the thousands
of years that have passed withered into the wretched
things we know. If we had visited a barrow directly
after its construction, we might not have even known
any o