These originally Scandinavian words are now chiefly found in the north-west of England, among the remote mountains of Yorkshire, Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire, where they have withstood the changes of time. On entering a house there one will find the housewife sitting with her _rock_ (_Dan._, Rok; _Eng._, a distaff) and _spoele_ (_Dan._, Spole; _Eng._, spool, a small wheel on the spindle); or else she has set both her _rock_ and her _garnwindle_ (_Dan._, Garnvinde; _Eng._, reel or yarn-winder) aside, whilst standing by her _back-bword_ (_Dan._, Bagebord; _Eng._, baking-board) she is about to knead dough (_Dan._, Deig), in order to make the oaten bread commonly used in these parts, at times, also, barley-bread; for _clap-bread_ (_Dan._ Klappebröd, or thin cakes beaten out with the hand) she lays the dough on the _clap-board_ (_Dan._, Klappebord). One will also find the _bord-claith_ spread (_Dan._, Bordklæde; _Eng._, table-cloth); the people of the house then sit on the _bank_ or _bink_ (_Dan._, Bænk; _Eng._, bench), and eat _Aandorn_ (_Eng._, afternoon’s repast), or, as it is called in Jutland and Fünen, _Onden_ (dinner). The chimney, _lovver_, stands in the room; which name may perhaps be connected with the Scandinavian _lyre_ (Icelandic, ljóri); _viz._, the smoke-hole in the roof or thatch (_thack_), out of which in olden times, before houses had regular chimneys and “_lofts_” (_Dan._, Loft; _Eng._, roof, an upper room), the smoke (_reek_ or _reik_, _Dan._, Rög) left the dark (_mirk_ or _murk_, _Dan._, mörk) room. Within is the _bower_ or _boor_ (_Eng._, bed-chamber), in Danish, _Buur_; as, for instance, in the old Danish word Jomfrubuur (the maiden’s chamber), and in the modern word Fadebuur (the pantry).