Maeshowe, or the maiden’s mound, as it has been translated, was formerly known to the Orcadians by the euphonius name of “the abode of the Hog-boy.” Hog-boy, however, is simply a perversion of the Norse Haug-bui or mound dweller.
From p150 of
Orkneys and Shetland
Chas. Sprague Smith
Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, Vol. 23. (1891), pp. 131-155.