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haugr

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[akin to hár, high; höj; hog; how]:—a how, mound; haugr eða hæð, , ix. 382, 260; there was usually a how near the houses, from which the master could look over his estate, 6, 11; hann gékk nú at bæ Þorleifs ok at haugi þeim er hann sat a., 98; Þorleifr var því vanr, sem mjök var fornmennis háttr, at sitja löngum úti á haugi einum ok eigi langt frá bænum, ii. 59; þar er h. nokkurr er hann er vanr at sitja, v. 160; hann sat á haugi sem konungar, i. 136, Stjörn. 5.
2. a dung-heap. midden; fjós-h., a byre-midden; ösku-h., an ash-heap; myki-h., a muck-heap; draga myki út ok færa í haug, 100, 178.II. a cairn, over one dead; the cairns belong to the burning age as well as to the later age, when the dead were placed in a ship and put in the how with a horse, hound, treasures, weapons, or the like, 6, 7, 768. (), 62 (twice), 81, 82, 86, 125 (lagðr í skip), 169, 23, 24, 31, 32, 8, 24, 79, 9, 34, (fine), Hervar. 13 (1847), 4, 5, (), i. 122 (Har. S. 45), 152 ( 27), 160 ( 32), Har. Hárf. 8, S. 9: names of such cairns, Korna-haugr, 87; Hildis-h., 267; Hálfdanar-haugar, i. 74; Tréfóts-h., 87; Melkorku-h., Mókolls-h., : in local names, Haugr, Haugar, Haugs-nes, , ; Hauga-þing, an assembly in Norway, viii. 245, ix. 109. There is an historical essay on cairns by old Jón Ólafsson in Additam. (autogr. and interesting).
β. a kind of sacrificial mound, 83 (Hölgi), 12, 122; hauga né hörga, hlaða hauga ok kalla hörg, i. 430; blót-h., : for tales about the breaking open of cairns, wrestling with the ghosts, and carrying off their weapons and treasures, see 169, 15, 20, i. 23, 20 new : the burying in cairns was typical of the heathen age, whence such law phrases as, frá heiðnum haugi, from heathen how, from time immemorial, passim, vide Fr.; telja langfeðr frá haugi, or til haugs ok heiðni, to count one’s forefathers up to hows and heathen times, 48, iii. 122: in early laws unbaptized children were called höghæmen = how-men.
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