The Cabin in the Mountains
The Cabin in the Mountains The wooden holiday cabin, or hytte, is a staple of Norwegian life. In 2016, Robert Ferguson and his wife bought a piece of land high up in the Hardangervidda, the plateau…
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The Cabin in the Mountains
The wooden holiday cabin, or hytte, is a staple of Norwegian life. In 2016, Robert Ferguson and his wife bought a piece of land high up in the Hardangervidda, the plateau that dominates south-central Norway, and on it they built such a hytte.For Ferguson, the hytte represented the realisation of a dream that first brought him to Norway from England more than thirty years ago. Robert Ferguson, author of Scandinavians, explores the significance of a national icon in this charming, affectionate history.Turf-roofed and wooden-built, offering fresh clean air, peace, isolation, and the promise of a day's wood-chopping, hiking, or snow-clearing amid landscapes of great beauty, the hytte--or wooden cabin home--is a crucial part of the national identity of every Norwegian.
As the cabin takes shape he learns, through conversations with friends and cabin-builders,
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