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Haugbúi

Gape e bidiwa: haugbui, mound-dweller, howe-dweller, hogboon
Dinaane tsa setso le ditlhamaneBaswi ba ba tsogilengE batla e sa tshikinyegeMotlha wa Bogare

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

Di lwantshe
E kwadilwe la ntlha
1250
Icelandic sagas written down in the 13th and 14th centuries
Tshimologo
Norse
Iceland, Norway, Bogosi jo bo Kopaneng
Se se e bakang
Tse dingwe
The dead man remains animate inside his own burial mound, usually alongside his grave goods.
O fetoga yone jang
A dead person laid in a howe stays there as its occupant and guardian.
E tsamaya jang
E batla e sa tshikinyege
Unlike the roaming draugr it does not leave the mound; it attacks only those who break in or trespass on its ground.
Botlhale
Botlhale bo bonnye
Bokoa
  • defeating it in a fight inside the mound
  • decapitation
  • burning the body
dikwalo tsa patlisiso

Se metswedi e se buang

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

Metswedi

  1. Draugr - Wikipedia
  2. Revenant - Wikipedia

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