Barn stove at the Straumen Farm, Norway

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Campbell, Sandy

• At the Straumen Farm, located in Tromsø Municipality, Norway, this stone stove was located in the corner of a livestock barn. Interpreters at the site told us that the large metal pot, or laupingsgryta, over the fire was used to cook sea weed, fish heads and kitchen waste to make animal feed. Heat from the stove would also have kept the animals warm.

• Date created

  2024-06-12

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Laupingsgryta
  • Stone stove
  • Animal food preparation
  • Traditional animal housing - Northern Norway

• Type of Item

  Image

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-evja-g907

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International