Chamber's miscellany of instructive Author:William Chambers Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SCENES FROM PEASANT LIFE IN NORWAY. My Grandfather's House. IN Tonset parish, in Oesterdal, on a hill-side, rising from the borders of the narrow tarn ... more »which winds like a river through the glen, stands the house which my grandfather built for himself when he first settled in the village. At the time of which I am about to speak, when I This word is adopted as most intelligible to English readers, though it does not quite truly render the Norwegian term, bygd (meaning strictly an inhabited place); for, though the people of a bygd consider themselves as forming a community, their dwellings are not clustered together as in a village, but are spread over an area frequently several Norwegian miles in extent, each farmhouse being situated in the midst of the lands belonging to it; and as the peasantry make everything for themselves -- from their houses, household furniture, and linen, to their harness, ploughs, carts,« less