A Backstugusittare (lit. 'hill cottage sitter') is a historical term of a certain category of the country side population in the history of Sweden. It...

century, but it was only from the beginning of the 19th century that backstugusittare were reported separately from crofters. The estate statistics of 1805...

scale than farmhands, maids and those who lived in paupers' cottages (backstugusittare). In Danish and Norwegian, the common noun for an inhabitant of a torp...