Studio: international art (57.1913)

Open-Air Museums in Norway

THE MAIHAUGEN OPEN-AIR MUSEUM: THE “ MY1TING STUE ” (see i. Ill))

completely panelled in on the outside, so it really
becomes a corridor; and the svale at the end, as
already mentioned, has two stories. The large

room in the Lokre stue is
20 feet by 23, and 13 feet
high from the floor to the
ridge-pole or roof-tree, there
being no loft over the big
room. It will be readily
understood that this house
has not sprung direct from
the aarestue. Intermediate
phases had to be passed:
the first little leaden window
has grown and multiplied,
as has the furniture, though
still by no means excessive ;
thq pels (open fireplace) still
found in many Norwegian
houses, and now having again
become a regular institution,
has superseded the aare, its
place being in the corner
opposite the entrance. Also
the “ high-seat ” has been removed to the wall in
the corner opposite to the peis; but the long
benches still run along the walls, and in one

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THE MAIHAUGEN OI’EN-AIR MUSEUM BEDROOM OF PARSONAGE FROM_VAAGE (see p. 120)