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well as a door to the house (for the ground-plans given 

 in our figures A, B, C are taken from existing buildings, 

 not merely from imagination). The Old Norse name 

 for the most primitive form of house (A) would be 

 huY. Another word stofa (modern Norse, stuva), is 

 etymologically the same as our stove, and like the 

 German stuhe, means a room with a fire in it. Fig. C 

 represents a third and more developed type of house, 

 which has an additional chamber and a porch. 



The earliest houses built in Norway were, no doubt, 

 in the strict sense of the word los-houses. There- 



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fore, if the traveller is on the search for a primitive 

 form, he will do well to look out especially for buildings 

 of this sort ; for to-day wooden houses in Norway and 

 Sweden are not usually built of undi'essed logs, but of 

 boards. In the house given on the accompanying block 

 we have an example of perhaps one of the oldest wooden 

 houses actually standing in Norway. It stands, or stood 

 at Uv in Eennebo in Orkedal. We see that it has been 

 built of rough logs, but in spite of its primitive struc- 

 ture, some of the love of beauty which distinguislied 



