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Haugbúi

También llamado: haugbui, mound-dweller, howe-dweller, hogboon
Folclore y mitosNo muertoApenas se mueveEdad Media

The haugbúi is the stay-at-home variant of the Norse walking dead: a corpse that lives on inside its burial mound and guards what was buried with it. It is dangerous only to those who enter, which makes it the standard opponent of treasure-seeking saga heroes such as Grettir and Hrómundr. Scholars treat it as a sub-type of the draugr, and the two terms are often used loosely for the same beings. Its literary afterlife runs through Tolkien's barrow-wights into modern fantasy.12

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Primer registro
1250
Icelandic sagas written down in the 13th and 14th centuries
Origen
Norse
Islandia, Noruega, Reino Unido
Qué lo causa
Otro
The dead man remains animate inside his own burial mound, usually alongside his grave goods.
Cómo te conviertes en uno
A dead person laid in a howe stays there as its occupant and guardian.
Cómo se mueve
Apenas se mueve
Unlike the roaming draugr it does not leave the mound; it attacks only those who break in or trespass on its ground.
Inteligencia
Algo de inteligencia
Puntos débiles
  • defeating it in a fight inside the mound
  • decapitation
  • burning the body

¿Cuándo apareció por primera vez?

Mundo antiguo
Edad Media
De 1500 a 1899
De 1900 a 1967
De 1968 a 1999
De 2000 a 2009
De 2010 a hoy
1250

Icelandic sagas written down in the 13th and 14th centuries

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Qué dicen las fuentes

1

The name joins Old Norse haugr ('mound') and búi ('dweller')12

2

It fights grave robbers hand to hand, and some are immune to ordinary weapons12

3

Saga mounds are described as reeking so badly that intruders can die of the stench12

4

The Orkney and Caithness 'hogboon' takes its name from the same word12

5

Tolkien's barrow-wights were modelled on it; 'barrow-wight' was first used for these dead in an 1869 translation of Grettis saga12

Fuentes

  1. Draugr - Wikipedia
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

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