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=== Haugbúi (mound-dweller){{anchor|Haugbúi}} === The ''haugbúi'', meaning "mound-dweller" or "[[:wikt:how#Etymology 2|howe]]-dweller" (composite of {{langx|non|haugr}}, "[[tumulus|mound]]", cognate to English "how, howe, height", and ''búi'', "dweller", from ''búa'', "reside"), the dead body living within its tomb, is a variation of the ''draugr''. The notable difference between the two was that the haugbui cannot leave its grave site and only attacks those who trespass upon their territory.<ref name="Curran-pp81-93"/> Beings in British folklore such as [[Lincolnshire dialect|Lincolnshire]] "[[shag-boy]]s" and [[Scots language|Scots]] "[[hogboons]]" derive their names from ''haugbui''.<ref name="shag-boy">{{cite web |title=shag-boy |url=https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shag-boy |website=Wiktionary |access-date=12 January 2023 |language=en |date=29 September 2019}}</ref> A modern rendering is also [[barrow-wight]], popularized by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] in his novels, however, initially used for the draugr in [[Eiríkur Magnússon]]'s and [[William Morris]]' 1869 translation of ''[[Grettis saga]]'', long before Tolkien employed the term;{{Refn|Burns<ref name=burns/> citing Gilliver et al. (2009) [2006]. ''[[The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary]]'', pp. 214–216.<ref name=gilliver/>}} rendering Icelandic ''"Sótti haugbúinn með kappi"'' as "the barrow-wight setting on with hideous eagerness".<ref name=magnusson&morris-cap18-p048>{{harvp|Eiríkur Magnússon|Morris (trr.)|1869}}. Ch. 18. [https://books.google.com/books?id=GtdUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA48 p. 48]</ref><ref name="p. 65">{{harvp|Boer (ed.)|1900|p=}}, Cap. 18, [https://books.google.com/books?id=T-UOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA65 p. 65]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://skaldic.abdn.ac.uk/db.php?table=verses&id=26687&if=myth |title=Pre-Christian Religions of the North: Sources : [excerpt from] Gr ch. 18b: Living in gravemounds |year=2014 |access-date=2020-11-17 |author=PCRN project and Skaldic project}}</ref>
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