Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - CHAPTER I. Contrasts — Development of Norwegian tourist traffic — Passengers on the ‘Argo,’ and their tub of introduction — Whales — The Norwegian coast — Stavanger — Glacier vestiges in the High Street — Bergen — Indoor ivy — A Church of England Service conducted in the spirit of Primitive Christianity — Northward Ho! — Aalesund — Christiansund — Delay and disappointment — Trondhjem — Northern luxury — The Cathedral — The Falls of the Nid — A terraced valley — Prosperous farmers — The “Störhaus”— Glacial origin of the terraces.
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milk at a farmhouse, which, in auctioneering
English, and without auctioneer’s exaggeration, might
be fairly called “a very desirable family mansion.”
There were other similar farmhouses in the
neighbourhood, and many fine specimens of the
characteristic Norwegian störhaus, from which I
suspect we derive our English word storehouse,
though its meaning in Norsk is simply “large
house,” from “stor,” large, and “haus,”
pronounced exactly the same as our word “house.”
They bear this name in Norway on account of
their great size. They are commonly the largest
buildings on a farm. They are storehouses also,
in our sense of the word, being the buildings in
which the hay is stored for winter use instead of
being exposed to the weather, as in our haystacks.
These storehouses are, as seen from outside,
apparently of two stories, but really only of one within.
There are two doors, one on the ground level, and
another much higher, the latter approached by a
wooden incline wide enough for the ascent of a
hay wagon. The hay is pitched in by this upper
opening and withdrawn by the lower. This
housing of hay is universal throughout Norway,
but there are few districts where the storehouses
are of such magnitude as hereabouts, and in the
Gulbrandsdal.
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