Lekvattnet
Värmlands little dollhouse
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Lekvattnet was one of the first of northern Värmland's valleys
where the Forest-Finns came. On the home district farm KarmenKynna,
you can see many buildings that show the immigrating Forest Finns'
living conditions.
KarmenKynna is one of Värmland's best concentrations of Finnish
buildings.
Here exists about 15 houses, all characteristic of the 17th century
buildings and accommodation culture, all imported by the Forest Finns
from Finland's eastern parts.
In these houses are tools and household utensils that reveal much
about the peoples' ways to manage and use nature, and about their
living conditions.
The smoke house part is from the middle farm in Örtjärnshöjden and
moved to its current location in the year 1923.
The so called Swede cottage was added on some years later.
The Finn Erik Eriksson Kiiskinen, born in Östmark, came to Örtjärnshöjden
during 1780'.
He put up the smoke cottage and married the farmer Nils Larsson's
daughter Karin.
The farm was eventually inherited by the son Jon Eriksson and his wife
Kjerstin Jonsdotter.
Their son Jon Jonsson married Kerstin Ersdotter-Kähöinen and became
the last that used the smoke cottage until 1910.
The smoke house was uninhabited until 1923, when the house was sold
to Lekvattnet rural culture society.
At this place you can eat the Finnish disk Motti
och Fläsk (Grain and pork)
The farm is owned by Lekvattnets rural culture society.
Last updated: 2007-12-26
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