The wooden holiday cabin, or hytte, is a staple of Norwegian life.
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. 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. As the cabin takes shape he learns, through conversations with
friends and cabin-builders, the cultural history of modern Norway.
He learns of the changing traditions attached to these cabin homes
for native Norwegians as they try to marry their new-found urban
affluence to their past as a tight-knit, impoverished rural
community-nation. Along the way he also describes the intense and
mutually rewarding relationship that arose between the colonial
Norwegians and their wealthy, imperialist British neighbours across
the North Sea in the 19th and 20th centuries; how the British
'salmon-lords' showed them another way of looking at their great
rivers, and how English climbers introduced them to a new way of
thinking about their mountains.
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