Nyelvtudományi közlemények 91. kötet (1990)

78 TAMÁS HOFFMANN
It is almost certain, that the porch and sleeping-chamber did not have
an attic or chimney.
Within the sleeping-chambër cots, sheets and blankets provided comfort
for the night. Body linen was kept in a trunk. In the room there was a low
table and chair, and along the wall boards laid upon stakes dug into the
ground served as benches. By the end of the period the high table found its
way into this areá also, as did the armchair and in somé instances the bed,
in which, at most, a very distinguished guest was allowed to sleep.
As soon as the room took up its function, a stove was placed inside it,
which was heated from the porch. This new construction was a tiled industrial
product, a rare exception within the self-sufficient peasant household.
Another industrial product later was the table and armchair.
Whether it was like this or not, it is certain that peasant architecture
and its furnishings were hardly related to the work of tradesmen. In this
aspect the Hungárián culture stood behind the achievements of Europe's
more urbanized areas, and what it wished to reach was the material culture
of southern Germán provinces. It did this through the intermediary filter of
the architecture of Hungárián towns.
TAMÁS
HOFFMANN
Nyelvtudományi Közlemények 91. 1990.