Talk:Sett (disambiguation)

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I have moved the following entry to here: This belongs in an article somewhere, and not on a disambiguation page. HairyWombat 19:25, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Sett - Anglicised form of the Norwegian term seter, setr, setre or sætre. In Norway, this is a summer pasture, higher up in the mountains than the main settlement in the lower valley or on the fjord side.  Sett is the Norse equivalent of the Central European term 'Alp' which refers to the high pastures and not (as is often assumed)to the mountain itself. In England, as Norse settlers advanced around Scotland (in the latter half of the first millenium A.D.) and through northern England into the area now known as the Yorkshire Dales, they found relatively high pasture areas on which they settled. This is reflected in current village names such as Burtersett and Countersett, (both in Wensleydale) and Gunnerside (in Swaledale) where 'sett' has subsequently been changed to 'side'.