Stockholm in May. Djurgården. Skansen

Stockholm in spring. Djurgården. Skansen. Sweden.

The Hornborga Cottage.

 

The Hornborga Cottage (Hornborgastugan) comes from the village of that name in Västergötland. It consists of a dwelling, cowshed and barn in a single L-shaped building.

 

One has to bend down to enter the dwelling since the door is only 105 centimetres high. The room itself measures only 4 x 4 metres and the stove takes up about a quarter of the room.

 

This cottage was owned for several generations during the 18th century by a family who acted as local verger; not a very important post in a district where churches were thick on the ground. The inhabitants had the right to glean hay after the farmers had taken in the hay-harvest.

 

The last occupant of the cottage lived from fishing and from mending shoes. He kept a cow and a couple of sheep in the windowless cowshed.

 

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