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the farm-yard under the open sky erected as it were a 

 crib or rack, krubba eller hack, of two narrow hurdles, 

 grindar, which were fastened together at the bottom, and 

 between which fine hay was laid of which the sheep went 

 to eat in the night when they stood at home in the farm- 

 yard. 



The sheep are clipped here not more than once a 

 year, and that in the summer. They are folded from 

 Michaelmas in the autumn till this time [T. I. p. 202] in 

 the spring, and later, on turnip-lands, a better description 

 of which shall be given farther on. 



The hurdles, grindarna, wherewith, and within 

 which, they are folded, are about 8 feet long, and 3 feet 

 6 inches high, which hurdles are ' keyed ' or looped, 

 klafvas, close together in a row, a post being driven 

 down into the ground between each ; and thus, accord- 

 ing to the number of sheep, they made a larger or 

 smaller fold, falla. From the fold there commonly 

 runs a narrow passage made of similar hurdles, to some 

 one of the living hedges, by which the field is sur- 

 rounded, that the sheep in bad weather may be able 

 to go to such hedge and shelter there. In the sheep-fold 

 there is mostly a " sheep-crib " or " sheep-trough," ho, 

 knocked together of two boards ad unguium acutum, or a 

 little less than an angulus rectus, and a board-lap at each 

 end, so that the fodder may not run out. When it is bad 

 weather barley is laid in this trough, or oats, or pease, 

 for the sheep to eat. 



Halm-tak. Straw-thatch was much used in this 

 district, on outhouses as well as on cottages, stugor 

 hvari folket bodde. It was also hereabout not un- 

 common to see beautiful brick houses, stenhus, with 

 straw-thatch over. A great many outhouses were, how- 

 ever of wood, the walls, for instance, being made of thick 

 oak-boards. The roofs of the houses, whether they were 



