It was so hot when I went into a cabin that my nose could have been burnt off, yet the people there were perfectly happy and the boys were even jumping around on the benches in fur-coats. The stove is built like those in Småland bath-houses but there were stones on top of it in the form of a wall up to the height of a man. The old women spin yarn on their naked thighs and are naked to the navel – indeed, often completely naked.