Outside, in the _garth_, or yard (_Dan._, Gaard), stands the roomy _lathe_, or barn (_Dan._, Lade), which directly shows how fruitful the soil is that belongs to the _garth_ (_Dan._, Gaard; _Eng._, a manor, farm). The shepherd or herdsman, whose _nowth_ (_Dan._, Nöd; _Eng._, neat cattle) are restless in the _boose_ (_Dan._, Baas; _Eng._, stall) and _crib_ (_Dan._, Krybbe; _Eng._, manger), is about to cleanse the stable, and with a _greype_, or gripe (_Dan._, Möggreve; _Eng._, dung-fork), bears out the _muck_ (_Dan._, Mög; _Eng._, dung) to the midding (_Dan._, Mödding; _Eng._, dunghill). If we accompany him to the fields he tells us in a lively tone about the many _threaves_ of corn (_Dan._, Traver, bundles of twenty or thirty sheaves), particularly of _big_ (_Dan._, Byg; _Eng._ barley) that have been got from the poor _ling_ (_Dan._, Lyng; _Eng._, fern) which covers the sides of the _haughs_ or _haws_ (_Dan._, Höie; _Eng._, hills); of all the _slaa-torns_ (_Dan._, Slaatjörn; _Eng._, sloes), _lins_ (_Dan._, Lindetræer; _Eng._, linden trees), _roan trees_ (_Dan._, Rönnetrær; _Eng._, Scotch rowan trees), and _allars_ (_Dan._, Elletræer; _Eng._, alders), that grow in yonder little _shaw_ (_Dan._, Skov; _Eng._, wood), or in that _lawnd_ (_Dan._, Lund; _Eng._, grove), which is likewise full of _hindberries_ (_Dan._, Hindbær; _Eng._, raspberries), and which is resorted to by many _gowks_ (_Dan._, Gjöge; _Eng._, cuckoos). A field farther on, which in its time was acquired by _mackshift_ (_Dan._, Mageskifte; _Eng._, deed of exchange), has been allowed to _ley-breck_ (_Dan._, ligge-brak; _Eng._, to lie fallow). Through this field winds a _beck_ (_Dan._, Bæk; _Eng._, brook), or rivulet well stocked with fish, in which with a _liester_ (_Dan._, Lyster; _Icelandic_, Ljöstr, grains, or a sort of barbed iron fork on a long pole) one may be able to make a good capture. In the river are the _trows_, or troughs (_Jutland_, trow; _Old Scan._, Þró), made use of to cross over to the opposite shore. These _trows_, or troughs, are two small boats, originally trunks of trees hollowed out, and held together by a cross-pole. He who wishes to pass over places a foot in each trough or boat, and rows himself forward with the help of an oar. It is said that Edmund Ironsides and Canute the Great rowed over to the Isle of Olney (in the river Severn) in such boats at the time when they concluded an agreement to divide England between them. The original inhabitants of Europe undoubtedly passed the great rivers in the same simple manner.