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Haugbúi

Kallas även: haugbui, mound-dweller, howe-dweller, hogboon
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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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Först belagd
1250
Icelandic sagas written down in the 13th and 14th centuries
Ursprung
Norse
Island, Norge, Storbritannien
Vad som orsakar det
Övrigt
The dead man remains animate inside his own burial mound, usually alongside his grave goods.
Hur man blir en
A dead person laid in a howe stays there as its occupant and guardian.
Hur den rör sig
Rör sig knappt
Unlike the roaming draugr it does not leave the mound; it attacks only those who break in or trespass on its ground.
Intelligens
Viss intelligens
Svaga punkter
  • defeating it in a fight inside the mound
  • decapitation
  • burning the body

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1250

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

fältanteckningar

Vad källorna säger

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

Källor

  1. Draugr - Wikipedia
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

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Folktro från samma trakter

DraugrNorse, 1250AbhartachIrish, 1870GlámrNorse (Icelandic saga), 1300Revenant (medieval England)Medieval English, 1100AsvithNorse (Danish chronicle and Icelandic saga), 1200Berwick revenantMedieval English / Scottish borders, 1198

Samma epok: Medeltiden

VetalaHindu (Indian), 1070UpiórSlavic, 1100Buckinghamshire revenantMedieval English, 1198Byland Abbey revenantsMedieval English, 1400Drakelow revenantsMedieval English, 1090HrapprNorse (Icelandic saga), 1245