Seter vs Sester - What's the difference?
seter | sester |
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:
* 1968 , Axel Christian Zetlitz Sømme, A geography of Norden: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden , page 248:
* 2002 , Brian Roberts, Landscapes of Settlement: Prehistory to the Present , page 131:
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==Norwegian Bokmål==
As nouns the difference between seter and sester
is that 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 while sester is (history) 1 as a liquid measure for honey and wine between 24 and 32 ounces 2 a dry measure for grain maybe equal to 12 bushels.seter
English
Noun
(en noun)- Every summer, a long long time ago, they went up to the seter with the cows from Melbustad, in Hadeland.
- 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 .
- 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.
