Ytste Skotet
Ytste Skotet is a complete, preserved, historical farm located in
Name
Ytste Skotet is one of three related farms. The other two are Me-Skotet (me is local dialect for "middle") and Inste Skotet (inste is local dialect for innermost). The name Skotet (pronounced Skøt-e where "ø" sounds like the "u" in "curling" and the "e" like the "o" in fjord) signifies a high elevation projecting point of land.
Operation
The farm is well preserved and maintained. It is a typical pre-industrial operation that remained in use until modern times; the activities still shown here are representative of the old ways of the mountain-and-fjord farms along the
History
The place is mentioned in
Ane Karoline Vidhammar was the last farmer at Ytste Skotet; she operated the farm with her son, Knut Olav, and her daughter, Jenny Olea, until the farm was vacated in 1954. The place lay fallow until 1989 when the property, comprising 750 acres (3.0 km2), was assigned to the Storfjordens Venner (The Friends of the Great Fjord) foundation, which has rehabilitated the buildings and the cultivated landscape. The place has been restored to represent it as it existed when the farm was last in operation.
Future
Norsk Kulturråd (Norwegian Culture Council) has selected Ytste Skotet to be one of nine projects in Norway working under the motto "Children, youngsters, and museums". The farm has become a pilot project and the very preservation assumes continuation of the old ways of operating. In the summer season, the foundation receives schools and visitors and keeps courses with possibilities for serving and accommodation.[3]
Access
- Easiest access is by boat from Dyrkorn – Transport: Dyrkorn - Skotet
- One may also access the farm in a couple of hours by foot traveling over the mountain from Ramstaddalen in Sykkylven Municipality.[4]
Media gallery
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View towards Skotet. Ytste Skotet at the right, Meskotet to the left of the middle and Inste Skotet outermost left.
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Ytste Skotet
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Breastshot water wheel which powered the wood splitting machine in the barn at the farm.
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Ytste Skotet
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The main house
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Baking crispbread in the kitchen
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Living room
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Wide and open meadows at Ytste Skotet
References
- ^ "Ytste-Skotet". Fjord Norge AS. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
- ^ "1995 - Ytste-Skotet". Storfjordens Vvenner. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
- ^ "Ytste Skotet" (in Norwegian). Stiftinga Sunnmøres Museum. Retrieved 2010-10-16.
- ^ "Ytste Skotet". kulturarv.no. Retrieved 2010-10-16.
External links
- Olavsrosa (in Norwegian)
- Stiftinga Ytste Skotet (in Norwegian)
- Ytste Skotet (in Norwegian)
- Ytste Skotet, a living museum (in Norwegian)