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the iron-spike E F was being driven in to the gate, by 

 striking it with a mallet at E. 



In other places all this was of wood, and instead of 

 the hapse, klinkan, in this case being below E F, Fig. 5, 

 it lies above it, so that when the gate closes, B C which 

 is not then curved but straight, bends in towards the 

 gate, and A then goes out from it, and also from its 

 weight at A it shuts by itself, when the fixed hapse 

 comes opposite the latch-post of the gate.* 



Sades-lador; Sadens-troskning, etc. Bams, 

 thrashing com, etc. The barns in this district were 

 sometimes built of brick with cross beams of wood 

 between ; sometimes the walls were of oak boards, 

 Ek-brader, nailed fast horizontally. On the top they 

 were mostly covered with tiles. A few were thatched 

 with straw. 



Logen, the "lodge" where the corn was thrashed 

 was in the middle, and a " bay " or " lathe," lada, on 

 either side. Golfvet, the floor of the lodge was not 

 higher above the ground than in the bays on each side 

 of it nor was there any wall between them. They 

 [T. I. p. 364] continued the thrashing far into the 

 summer. Slagorne, the flails, were the same kind as 

 ours. 



Some people used to clear the corn of chaff, agner, 

 by means of fans, Kast-skafvel, others had a particular 

 machine for the purpose, which was made of wood in 

 shape like a Ranntra or loom in which one weaves 

 cloth, but instead of standing perpendicularly like a 

 loom, this winnower is laid horizontally, as it has to be 



* From the indiscriminate use by Kalm of the same word for different 

 objects, and of different words for the same parts, the translation of this 

 passage would have been impossible without the figures and a knowledge of 

 the English technical names and uses of the various parts of the hinges and 

 latches described. [J. L.] 



