Saeters

These mountain pastures are called saeters, and the milk required by each family for daily use is carried down from the saeter by the girls. ❋ Unknown (1859)

It is full of home sounds, of cattle and "saeters," of timbered houses and sparse nature. ❋ Paul Rosenfeld (1918)

It was one of the "saeters" or mountain dairies where the cattle were pastured in summer long ago -- just as they are at the present day. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Some went off to drive the cattle to the "saeters" or mountain pastures, others set out for the fisheries, and not a few sailed forth on viking cruises over the then almost unknown sea. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Here were a couple of saeters, and across the lake, on a wooded island, stood a small frame house that looked like some city people's summer cottage. ❋ Johan Bojer (1915)

The sun goes down, there come sounds of cow-bells nearing the saeters, the musical cries and calls of the saeter-girls, the lowing of the cattle. ❋ Johan Bojer (1915)

Heights and woods and saeters lay lifeless in the soft suffused reddish light. ❋ Johan Bojer (1915)

She heard cow-bells and sheep-bells tinkling round about her, and concluded that she could not be far from the saeters, or mountain dairies. ❋ Unknown (1892)

Far inland the great mountains rose, snow-capped now, and shone golden and white and purple in the evening sun; and everywhere the forests climbed to meet the snow, and the sound of the cattle horns came at the homing hour to tell of the saeters hidden in the valleys. ❋ Unknown (1884)

She sighed, and there was a far-off look in her eyes as if she saw again the Norse mountains and streams and the flower-edged glaciers, and heard the song of the maidens on the pastures round the saeters, and the homing call for the cattle, and longed for them. ❋ Unknown (1884)

Fergus, who leads the flocks to the saeters, says that in rainy weather a circle of clear sky can be seen over the Swedish castle; and that the heavens are always blue above Seraphita's head when she is on the mountain. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

a grey hut or two show out -- saeters, which have lain there unchanged for perhaps a couple of thousand years. ❋ Johan Bojer (1915)