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Haugbúi

A tún ń pè é ní: haugbui, mound-dweller, howe-dweller, hogboon

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

⚔️ Bá a jà
Ìgbà àkọ́kọ́ tí a kọ sílẹ̀
1250
Icelandic sagas written down in the 13th and 14th centuries
Orírun
Norse
Iceland, Norway, United Kingdom
Ohun tó fà á
Òmíràn
The dead man remains animate inside his own burial mound, usually alongside his grave goods.
Bí o ṣe di ọ̀kan
A dead person laid in a howe stays there as its occupant and guardian.
Bí ó ṣe ń rìn
Kò fẹ́rẹ̀ẹ́ rìn
Unlike the roaming draugr it does not leave the mound; it attacks only those who break in or trespass on its ground.
Làákàyè
Làákàyè díẹ̀
Àwọn ibi tó lẹ̀
  • 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

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Ohun tí àwọn orísun sọ

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

Àwọn orísun

  1. Draugr - Wikipedia
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

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