Seter

In one of my posts, Easter skiing in the valley, I explained what a Norwegian 'seter' is, I've never been able to find a good term for it in English... What I said then was this;

Basically they were places where someone in the farmer's family, usually women - a 'budeie' - stayed during summer, or went during the day to milk the cows. Now they're used as places where people build small cabins and go to get away from home for a weekend, or stay longer during summer.

The picture above is a seter and this is pretty much what they looked like a hundred years ago. Many haven't changed. This place is called Holskarsetra and I really can't say what the word means.. There are no roads and it's a thirty minute walk up through the woods to get here. We walk through during summer when we go to a mountain up and to the left of this picture. People still stay here, only during summer of course. It's a peaceful place, nothing but cows, mosquitoes and the occational hiker.

Photos are taken by a neighbour and are the headings for the new pages Honndalsportalen. They're mostly for those who live in town so if you can't read Norwegian you won't understand much. But the pictures are pretty! Below is, I belive, the view from our highest mountain.