Of building old times house

 

The English version of the gnome book that started me writing about gnomes, says of building of logs in the old times, that every Thursday evening, the builders had to knock on the wall with an axe and say "House, take good care of your elf." 

That seems to keep well in mind what kind of house it was meant to be, in which ways good for living and doing. 

Also in getting the new house into use, it was important to do it in good ways, for example the highest parts of the walls celebrated, and lighting a fire to the fireplace for the first time was done in good ways for the uses of the house.