![]() ![]() The cats had many uses and there have been found cat farms in Scandinavia from the Viking age, where they used the cats to get fur, but we can not say how far spread these were. The cat is not really a Norwegian cat breed, it is also known in the rest of Scandinavia, for instance in Denmark it is called a Huldrekat, which means ”hiding cat” and probably refers to the female forest spirits called “huldre” which literally means ”the hidden folk”. The forest cat is both larger, more muscular and has a thicker coat, which it obviously needs to thrive in a very cold climate like Scandinavia. The cats that are associated with the Goddess Freya is the forest cat (In Norwegian: Skogkatt), sometimes also referred to as the Norwegian forest cat. ![]() But the Egyptian cat had evolved and adapted itself to a much colder climate. The Egyptian cat was known in Scandinavia because they had slowly spread from Egypt and around the mediterranean sea to northern Europe by the Romans. ![]()
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