But that story of the bear at the saeter Petter and Karsten had to hear all summer long, for they were just as puffed up as ever.
Well, one day in August, Olsen, the farm-boy, and Trond Oppistuen were going to the saeter to cut hay.
Well, now you shall hear what a hullabaloo there was at the saeter that afternoon.
We stood up in the wagon and shouted hurrah as long as we could see Augusta in the saeterhut door, and after that we sang all the way down the mountain.
We saw Goodfields saeter above the hill and began running, all four of us.
They were all up at the saeterexcept two, and these roamed in the forest with the cows, because each of them had an injured leg.
Trond and Olsen had gone to another saeter to see some friends of theirs.
Suddenly she remembered that the son from Broker farm was staying at a near-by saeter just now.
Mrs. Proet said she should have to be well paid to go, and really, such fine, fashionable ladies as she aren't fit for a saeter anyway.
However, it was jolly to have him with us on the saeter trip,--just for the fun of teasing him, you know.
All went peacefully until, unfortunately for him, a certain maiden stationed at a neighbouring saeter grew to love him.
Since then, they say the woman of the saeter haunts Hund's house, and if she sees a light within she taps upon the door, and no man may keep her out.
Then, as now, the ravine in front of the enclosure was crossed by a slight bridge of planks, and over this bridge the woman of the saeter passed and re-passed each night.
The nearest saeter is a three hours' climb to a strong man, the paths are dangerous even in daylight: what woman would have found them in the night?
They soon arrived at Sikkildal Saeter with us, and we found that nothing had gone wrong, but the men had been very careful, and so had taken nine hours to make a journey of four miles.
Arriving at Besse Saeterwe found one of the two rooms occupied by two Swedish ladies, who were travelling about by themselves for the sake of their health.
Finding that the saeter girls were still here, we went in and asked for milk.
Illustration: Sunset at Fly Saeter] The saeter was a long low house, with three little rooms and only two windows.
At Sikkildal Saeter we got some food and called at a small house close to it, where a Mr. B.
The saeter is a place in the mountains where the Norwegian peasants spend their summers pasturing their cattle.
The next evening when the milking was done, and the cattle were gathered within the saeter enclosure, Brita was again sitting on the large stone, looking out over the valley.
Since then, they say, the woman of the saeter haunts Hund's house, and if she sees a light within she taps upon the door, and no man may keep her out.
Then, as now, the ravine in front of the enclosure was crossed by a slight bridge of planks, and over this bridge the woman of the saeter passed and repassed each night.
The nearest saeter is a three-hours' climb to a strong man, and the paths are dangerous even in daylight: what woman would have found them in the night?
They take their cattle part way up to the saeter on a boat.
One summer, Anne, Hulda, Sigrid, and Martha started for the saeter on June 25.
Tourists who travel through those mountains are glad to find a hotel at a saeter on their way where they can get food or stay over night.
And that is why many a farmer today takes his cattle to a saeter far from his home.
Matti, Ingrid, and their brother Ole go each summer to a large saeter called Grotli.
In Norway the people call a farmer's mountain pasture his saeter (say ter).
Anne and Hulda are sisters who go to a saeter each summer.
But the milkmaid may not know why the saeter is so far away from the farms.
They passed the saeter and went on down to the water's edge, and Peer proposed to row them home.
But Peer lay still where he was--and presently the dairy-maid at the saeter caught sight of what seemed an empty boat drifting on the lake, and was afraid some accident had happened.
Spring came and Aslaug went to the saeter with the cattle.
Up to the Huseby saeter there was but one road, as before stated; but a clever fellow might manage to get there, even if he did not take the beaten track.
Up at the saeter sat Aslaug, through with her day's work.
Up to the Huseby saeter there was but one road, and that led straight through the gard.
His father certainly died from the wrestle he had with the bear up at the saeter last year, and now they have no one but Niels.
Then he had interfered to separate them, and Tollef had led Lady Clare away, bleeding from a dozen wounds, and had hidden her in a deserted lumberman's shed near the saeter where the searchers had overtaken him.
They told of the lumbermen who had passed the saeter huts, and inquired for her; but otherwise they respected her silence, and made no attempt to pry into her secrets.
They were silent and moody during the evening, and sat staring into the big bonfire on the saeter green with stern and melancholy features.
On the evening of the first day's search they put up at a saeter or mountain chalet.
We will keep her imprisoned in the empty saeter hut," Wolf-in-the-Temple responded.
The saeter maidens live there in their cottages from June to September, making butter and cheese, tending the herds and doing such other work as they can.
For all it had to do with the experience of many of the children the saeter might really have been Asgard, the Norse paradise.
The saeter belonging to Ormgard and its neighbors was the one chosen by Mother Elle as a refuge for her flock.
Some stores of salt and grain were already at the saeter and the grain-fields had been sowed, before the pestilence appeared in the valley.
In ordinary seasons the work at the saeter was heavy, for the maidens must not only follow the herds over miles of pasture land, but make butter and cheese for the winter from their milking.
What if he were to drive the cows himself to the saeter and tend them through the summer?
She says that if it is God's will for the plague to come to the saeter it will come, but it is not there now, and it is in the valleys and the towns.
Well, George and I used to go out from the Saeter directly after breakfast each day, carrying our ruksacks on our backs, and one of us a gun and the other a fishing rod in his hand.
The saeteris a group of farm buildings; each one is a separate single-storied log house.
You remember that George and I went to Jasjvold Saeter in order to get some "reeper," and also to explore the gorge of which we had heard.
He did not realise that Katharine had retreated into herself since that anxious day at the Skyds-station; for Mrs Stanhope's words up at the Saeter had been echoing in her ears.
Why, thou dear Heaven, I was a cotter's son and lived up at the Saetersummer after summer.
Clifford Thornton was mounting from the Saeter down by the lake-side.
He has been the life and soul of the Saeter expedition.
She liked to have visitors, and her only regret was that she had not known in time to prepare the room for them in best saeter fashion.
Do you remember my saying up at the Saeter that I tried never to dream?
He had only a vague idea of his bearings; and, indeed, without knowing it, as he tried to retrace his steps he was wandering farther away, both from that Saeter and from the Gaard.
Meanwhile, if they would rest, she would do her utmost; and she suggested that the gentlemen should go down to the Saeter by the lake and secure a lodging there, and then they could return and have their meal in the stue here.
He strolled through the birch-woods, scarcely noticing where he trod; gained the open slopes, and then climbed slowly in the direction of a little isolated Saeter which commanded a view of the fine Rondane mountains.
I cannot say that theSaeter expedition has exhilarated any of you," remarked Knutty.
Then the Sorenskriver added: "Would that all the nations could meet together up at the Saeter and cry 'Skaal!
The saeter pilgrims had thought of dining there; but no one seemed inclined to face a crowd of two hundred guests.
Then the men went off to the Saeter down by the lake; and Katharine, Gerda, and the little Swedish artist arranged themselves for rest as well as they could in a rough saeter-stue.
They were beyond the reach of any methods of ascent at my command; unwillingly I had accepted again and again the wisdom of the farm people, who said "the road up to the saeter was too hard for those who were not used to it.
The wives and daughters of the family were all away, up at the saeter with the cows; only the men and the servant maids were left at home to make the hay.
There belongs to this farm most excellent saeter and mountain fields, wherefore the cattle begetting is here of great importance; and also the most excellent tract of firs belong to this farm.
Reluctantly I had put the saeter out of my hopes, as a thing to be known only by imagination and other people's descriptions.
Down the steep path from this saeter the man had walked, and the horse bearing the barrels of milk had followed.
His horse stood near by, with a big barrel slung on each side: they were barrels of milk, which had just been brought down in this way from a saeter which we could see, well up in the cloud region, far above the woods on the left.
They themselves would leave the haying and go with me, if I would only go; and I must never think I had seen Norwegian farming unless I had seen the saeter also, they said.
Christmas at the Frogner Saetermust be a Christmas worth having.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saeter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
