• afhus: A small building adjoining a Norse temple in which the altar, idols, etc., were placed.
• bauta: In Scandinavian archaeology, an upright stone, like a menhir, but often crowning a barrow, and sometimes 20 feet high. They are often of such late epoch that the names of persons in whose memory they seem to have been set up are engraved upon them in runes, and therefore they are hardly prehistoric monuments, but belong rather to the Viking age. It is not, however, absolutely certain that the stones themselves may not be of earlier date than their present placing, although the inscriptions are later.
• crowstep gable: A masonry gable extended above the roof line with a series of setbacks; often found in Northern European medieval architecture, especially Dutch architecture.
• Dragon style: Style of decoration influenced by Scandinavian Viking art, a Norwegian revival of which took place in the second half of the 19th c. Certain motifs were incorporated within the Celtic Revival and Art Nouveau.
• European larch: A tree found throughout northern Europe, which in England is an important softwood, exceedingly durable under all conditions.
• Hafner ware: In northern European decorative arts of the Renaissance and derivatives, modeled, lead-glazed earthenware often used for tiled heating stoves.
• kammara: Bedroom in the Swedish dwelling.
• mjolkbod: Dairy room of a Swedish dwelling.
• Norse ornament: See Viking ornament.
• parstuga: Three-room dwelling of the Swedes, the long rectangular plan of which consisted of two stugas joined by a vestibule and a third chamber.
• sateri roof: In Swedish architecture of the 17th and 18th century, a type of hipped roof with vertical breaks which were often provided with windows.
• stave church: A Norwegian mast-framed steep-roofed church of the 12th and 13th century, constructed entirely of wood, highly original in structure and with fantastic semipagan decorative features.
• stave-church: Timber-framed/timber-walled Scandinavian church type (from early 11th c.), built of staves. Later examples have elaborate tiered roofs.
• stavkirke: ‘Stave church’, a type of timber church found in northern Europe, most of all Scandinavia.
• strap ornament: A 16th-century northern European decoration similar to leather or fretwork.
• strapwork: A 16th-century northern European decoration similar to leather or fretwork.
• Swedish gambrel roof: A gambrel roof where the two upper slopes are shallow.
• thulite stone: A red or pink manganese epidote of a fine granular texture and pleasing color. As yet but little used. Found at Hinderheim, Norway.
• tvarumstuga: A three-room dwelling of Sweden, common in Mora, province of Dalecarlia.
• vardastuga: The single-room log cabin of Sweden, a prototype of early Swedish buildings in America.
• Viking ornament: Style of ornament produced (8th-12th c.) in Scandinavia and in Scandinavian colonies, consisting of interlacing elements linked to zoömorphic forms in continuous complex designs…
• white deal: A wood imported from the Baltic as white fir, white deal, or Norway spruce, and also from Canada, where it is called yellow spruce; a white, straight-grained, even-textured, tough, light wood used for interior construction.

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