Around the countryside, sometimes in people’s yards, sometimes in the middle of a pond/small lake and sometimes just in random places, I’ll find a miniature home or a couple of homes together. They look like little model homes, I think in one instance, there was a windmill.
They look cute and all, but are they more than just fun things to put in your garden? Is there a folklore behind them? If there was a folklore for them, I would call them a kind of home for nisse/gnomes.
Takk
ETA: I’ve found one that has been there for a while using Google Maps:
[https://www.google.com.au/maps/@69.5709804,18.0598321,3a,20.2y,73.62h,86.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3DnOJolL43T0El6P3ViY7Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com.au/maps/@69.5709804,18.0598321,3a,20.2y,73.62h,86.71t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3DnOJolL43T0El6P3ViY7Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
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by MurderousTurd
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Depends on the size, but they can be spoiled children’s play houses, a large doll’s house, a dog house or if small and on a pole or hanging from someting, a decorative house for birds (and in reality squirrels).
I am sure there are plenty of other reasons to have small miniature houses on your property too. Perhaps they were just a fun hobby building project or purely for decorative reasons.
Stabbur?
Could be anything from a tool shed, to somewhere to cure meat, playhouse to dog house, to atomatic lawn mower house. How miniature are we talking?
Duck sized.
Could it be [this? ](https://g.api.no/obscura/API/dynamic/r1/ece5/tr_2000_2000_s_f/1624181246000/sabl/2021/6/20/11/IMG_4831.jpg?chk=4D8278)
can it be a small house for a tusse?
I don’t quite remember the folk belief, but you had to make it happy, otherwise it will hurt you or put your milk goat on the roof.
They’re bird houses probably