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Haugbúi
E boetse e bitswa: 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
E ngotswe ka lekgetlo la pele
1250
Icelandic sagas written down in the 13th and 14th centuriesTshimoloho
Norse
Iceland, Norway, United KingdomSe e bakang
Tse ding
The dead man remains animate inside his own burial mound, usually alongside his grave goods.Kamoo o fetohang e nngwe ya tsona kateng
A dead person laid in a howe stays there as its occupant and guardian.
Kamoo e tsamayang kateng
E batla e sa sisinyehe
Unlike the roaming draugr it does not leave the mound; it attacks only those who break in or trespass on its ground.Bohlale
Bohlale bo itseng
Dintlha tse fokolang
- defeating it in a fight inside the mound
- decapitation
- burning the body
E hlahile neng ka lekgetlo la pele?
Icelandic sagas written down in the 13th and 14th centuries
dinoutu tsa patlisiso
Seo mehlodi e se buang
Mehlodi
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