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In Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels, the name struldbrugg (sometimes spelled struldbrug) is given to those humans in the nation of Luggnagg who are born seemingly normal, but are in fact immortal. Although struldbruggs do not die, they do continue aging. Swift's work depicts the evil of immortality without eternal youth. Struldbruggs were forbidden to own property: Because:

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  • Struldbrugoj (angle struldbrugs, singularo struldbrug) estas fikciaj senmortaj loĝantoj de fikcia lando Lugnago de libro La vojaĝoj de Gulivero de Jonathan Swift. Laŭ la libro, nur tre malgranda parto de lugnaganoj estas struldbrugoj. Struldbrugoj ne estas eterne junaj, sekve ili estas devigita suferi eternan maljunecon. (eo)
  • Struldbrug-ak fantasiazko izakiak dira, Jonathan Swiften Gulliver-en bidaiak liburuan agertzen direnak. Luggnagg uhartean bizi dira. Struldbrug-ak hilezkorrak dira, baina, nahiz eta hil ez, zahartzen jarraitzen dute. Errazak dira ezagutzen, euren ezker bekainaren gainean puntu bat dutelako. Puntu hori gorria da jaiotzean, eta gero berde, urdin eta, azkenean, beltz bihurtzen da. Gizaki normalak dira hogeita hamar urte bete arte, noiz arimabako bihurtzen diren. Laurogei urterekin, hildakotzat hartzen dira legez, nahiz eta hil ez inoiz. Gaitz asko sufritzen dute, ikusmen galera barne. Struldbrug-ek debekatuta dute jabetza pribatua. (eu)
  • In Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels, the name struldbrugg (sometimes spelled struldbrug) is given to those humans in the nation of Luggnagg who are born seemingly normal, but are in fact immortal. Although struldbruggs do not die, they do continue aging. Swift's work depicts the evil of immortality without eternal youth. They are easily recognized by a red dot above their left eyebrow. They are normal human beings until they reach the age of eighty, at which time they become dejected. Upon reaching the age of eighty they become legally dead, and suffer from many ailments including the loss of eyesight and the loss of hair. Struldbruggs were forbidden to own property: As soon as they have completed the term of eighty years, they are looked on as dead in law; their heirs immediately succeed to their estates; only a small pittance is reserved for their support; and the poor ones are maintained at the public charge. After that period, they are held incapable of any employment of trust or profit; they cannot purchase lands, or take leases; neither are they allowed to be witnesses in any cause, either civil or criminal or economic, not even for the decision of meers (metes) and bounds. Because: Otherwise, as avarice is the necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would in time become proprietors of the whole nation, and engross the civil power, which, for want of abilities to manage, must end in the ruin of thepublic. (en)
  • Струльдбруг — безсмертна істота у Лаггнегг, що народжується дуже рідко. Описуються в десятій главі третьої частини книги «Мандри Гуллівера» Джонатана Свіфта. (uk)
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  • illustrated by Grandville in the 1838 Paris edition (en)
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  • Gulliver's Travels (en)
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  • Struldbrugg (en)
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  • Struldbrugoj (angle struldbrugs, singularo struldbrug) estas fikciaj senmortaj loĝantoj de fikcia lando Lugnago de libro La vojaĝoj de Gulivero de Jonathan Swift. Laŭ la libro, nur tre malgranda parto de lugnaganoj estas struldbrugoj. Struldbrugoj ne estas eterne junaj, sekve ili estas devigita suferi eternan maljunecon. (eo)
  • Струльдбруг — безсмертна істота у Лаггнегг, що народжується дуже рідко. Описуються в десятій главі третьої частини книги «Мандри Гуллівера» Джонатана Свіфта. (uk)
  • Struldbrug-ak fantasiazko izakiak dira, Jonathan Swiften Gulliver-en bidaiak liburuan agertzen direnak. Luggnagg uhartean bizi dira. Struldbrug-ak hilezkorrak dira, baina, nahiz eta hil ez, zahartzen jarraitzen dute. Errazak dira ezagutzen, euren ezker bekainaren gainean puntu bat dutelako. Puntu hori gorria da jaiotzean, eta gero berde, urdin eta, azkenean, beltz bihurtzen da. Gizaki normalak dira hogeita hamar urte bete arte, noiz arimabako bihurtzen diren. Laurogei urterekin, hildakotzat hartzen dira legez, nahiz eta hil ez inoiz. Gaitz asko sufritzen dute, ikusmen galera barne. (eu)
  • In Jonathan Swift's 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels, the name struldbrugg (sometimes spelled struldbrug) is given to those humans in the nation of Luggnagg who are born seemingly normal, but are in fact immortal. Although struldbruggs do not die, they do continue aging. Swift's work depicts the evil of immortality without eternal youth. Struldbruggs were forbidden to own property: Because: (en)
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  • Struldbrugo (eo)
  • Struldbrug (eu)
  • Struldbrugg (en)
  • Струльдбруг (uk)
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