saeter

The saeter is a group of farm buildings; each one is a separate single-storied log house.

Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899

The saeter is a place in the mountains where the Norwegian peasants spend their summers pasturing their cattle.

Tales From Two Hemispheres 1877

[6] The saeter is a place in the mountains where the Norwegian peasants spend their summers pasturing their cattle.

Tales from Two Hemispheres Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871

-- Forgive me if I am telling you what you know, but a 'saeter' is the name given to the upland pastures to which, during the summer, are sent the cattle, generally under the charge of one or more of the maids.

The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

Every morning, before the birds began to twitter, Hilda set out, with her pail and her wooden box, to climb the mountain to the upland dairy or "saeter", and fetch the milk and butter required by the family during the day.

Erling the Bold 1859

"Forgive me if I am telling you what you know, but a 'saeter' is the name given to the upland pastures to which, during the summer, are sent the cattle, generally under the charge of one or more of the maids.

John Ingerfield and Other Stories 1893

The Three Billy Goats Gruff were on their way to find greener grass in a mountain saeter summer pasture, so no wonder the troll got short shrift.

Old English gods and myths: Eotens Carla 2010

Grass samples were taken from a number of spatially defined features at four Norse farms and one site interpreted to be a seasonally occupied herding station (saeter), scientists in Burnaby, Canada report (see also Archaeological Science).

Archaeological study on Greenlandic Norse 2008

At the saeter no strong isotopic effect was expected and none was found.

Archaeological study on Greenlandic Norse 2008

The nearest saeter is a three hours 'climb to a strong man, the paths are dangerous even in daylight: what woman would have found them in the night?

The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various