It is fairly normal in-game, but I'm playing Oblivion at the same time and that game is so dead set (no pun intended) against necromancy that I figured it would be the kind of thing to freak out someone from such a soldierly background. And it *is* the sort of thing that would bother a culture that puts such high value on valour in war and honours their dead so well as the Nords.

I love Hwæt, myself :) I got so amused by Seamus Heaney translating it to "So" for his version of Beowulf. It's such an Irish way of starting a story.