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Saeter vs Seter - What's the difference?

saeter | seter |

As nouns the difference between saeter and seter

is that saeter is a shieling while seter is a summer pasture with barns, especially one in the mountains of Scandinavia used for milk and cheese manufacture, to which a farmer takes livestock as part of transhumance.

saeter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shieling.
  • A Scandinavian mountainside meadow used seasonally for grazing milking cows or goats.
  • A cabin found in such a meadow.

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    seter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A summer pasture with barns, especially one in the mountains of Scandinavia used for milk and cheese manufacture, to which a farmer takes livestock as part of transhumance.
  • * 1964 , Reidar Christiansen, Folktales of Norway , page 114:
    • Every summer, a long long time ago, they went up to the seter with the cows from Melbustad, in Hadeland.
  • * 1968 , Axel Christian Zetlitz Sømme, A geography of Norden: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden , page 248:
    • In Østlandet, on the contrary, the high mountain plateau, the gentle slopes and the grouping of seters' in clusters permit the building of roads and therefore a modernized use of the ' seters .
  • * 2002 , Brian Roberts, Landscapes of Settlement: Prehistory to the Present , page 131:
    • For example, twelfth- and thirteenth-century documents from the north of England mention place-names incorporating the term 'shield' or 'shiel', a 'shieling' being an area of summer pasture corresponding to the seters of Sweden.
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