Category talk:Medieval lofts in Norway

Hello, Sjokolade. Where have you found your definition of loft vs stabbur? It is not totally in accordance with definitions in some of the books I have. In Gunnarsjaa, Arne: Arkitekturleksikon, for instance, he writes that a bur, or stabbur (if it stands on stabber=pillars of wood or stone) was normally built in one storey. Stabbur is for storage, sometimes with a sleeping room or two. Sometimes a LOFT was added as a second storey to the STABBUR. The primary function of the loft, was as rooms for farm hands/milkmaids/servants. As I understand your information/definition, you say that lofts sometimes were later used as stabburs? I would like you to name your source(s). Kjersti L. 18:36, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

In the beginning those to categories were very confusing for me and I read the norwegian article Stabbur og loft on wikipedia so as the articles on snl.no. So I tried to sort them into the right categories and also used the kulturminner app for it. So long... there is the other category loft for modern loft apartments and images were mixed up between "loft" and "lofts" and therefore I though a definition would be fine. The difference I found were that stabburs were used only for food and have a stair inside the "bur" and burs and lofts are for other storage but lofts were also used for sleeping (/ living?). The definitions said further that lofts don't stand on pillars and some of the photos demonstrate that... But different locations, different traditions (bygningsstikker) and I think some of them were rebuilt too. - greetings --Sjokolade (talk) 21:11, 26 May 2015 (UTC)