Stabbur
The Norwegian timber storehouse raised off the ground on wooden posts or flat stones to keep food, grain, wool, and heirlooms safe from damp and vermin. A flight of outside steps led to the door of the upper loft, and the space beneath was often roofed as a porch where tools and barrels were kept. Protective marks were sometimes carved or painted on the doorways, for folk belief guarded the larder as carefully as any lock, and the nisse of the farm was said to keep watch over the grain in the loft. The stabbur remained the standard farm building of Norway through the 19th century and is still