House- Bn tiding 4 1 



' building,' ^ iu other words, the building on to the hall ; 

 and hall and bower stand connected or contrasted really 

 as the men's and women's parts of the house, or, if you 

 like, the men's and women's houses built together. 



Just the same is the essential character of the Greek 

 house as it stands revealed to us in Homer. The chief 

 room, the hall of that house was called ixe'yapov, ' the 

 great,' simply, but it meant the great room; or say 

 great house, at a time when all other rooms were simply 

 other houses built round. To the bower of our old 

 poetry corresponded the woman's apartment, the dak- 

 a^oq. When the Greek house has become more 

 elaborated (as we see it, for example, in the Pompeian 

 house) these two essential divisions have expanded into 

 two groiqjs of rooms, each group surrounding a court, 

 the men's quarter {avhpwvlTi^) and the women's quarter 

 {yvvacKcoviTi';). Such is the chronicle and brief abstract 

 of the art of house-building in the west. 



In Norway we may still (even in this year of grace) 

 go back to the primitive condition of tilings, where, 

 what would be only a room of a house of the modern 

 kind, is here a separate building, and sometimes the 

 separate buildings seem in themselves to preserve all 

 the characteristics of the most primitive house-archi- 

 tecture. The modern traveller, — especially the traveller 

 who keeps close to the coast regions, — is only likely to 

 find examples of this in the scetcrs, those temporary 

 summer settlements lying generally on a small piece of 

 table-land some way up a mountain, whither the Nor- 

 wegians bring their cattle during the summer months 

 to feed upon the moist rich pastures of these high lands; 



^ German bauen, to Luild and to cultivate. 



