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Haugbúi
Yitwa kandi: 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
Yanditswe bwa mbere
1250
Icelandic sagas written down in the 13th and 14th centuriesInkomoko
Norse
Isilande, Noruveje, UbwongerezaIcyayiteye
Ibindi
The dead man remains animate inside his own burial mound, usually alongside his grave goods.Uko umuntu ahinduka zombi
A dead person laid in a howe stays there as its occupant and guardian.
Uko igenda
Ntinyeganyega hafi
Unlike the roaming draugr it does not leave the mound; it attacks only those who break in or trespass on its ground.Ubwenge
Ifite ubwenge buke
Intege nke
- defeating it in a fight inside the mound
- decapitation
- burning the body
Yagaragaye bwa mbere ryari?
Icelandic sagas written down in the 13th and 14th centuries
inyandiko zo ku kibuga
Ibyo amasoko avuga
Amasoko
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