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GUDBRANDSDAL

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 667 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUDBRANDSDAL , a See also:

district in the midlands of See also:southern See also:Norway, comprising the upper course of the See also:river Lougen or Laagen from Lillehammer at the See also:head of See also:Lake Mjosen to its source in Lake Lesjekogen and tributary valleys. Lillehammer, the centre of a See also:rich See also:timber district, is 114 M. N. of See also:Christiania by See also:rail. The railway continues through the well-wooded and cultivated valley to Otta (70 m.). Several tracks run westward into the See also:wild district of the See also:Jotunheim. From See also:Otto See also:good See also:driving routes run across the See also:watershed and descend the western slope, where the scenery is incomparably finer than in Gudbrandsdal itself—(a) past Sorum, with the 13th-See also:century churches of Vaagen and Lom (a See also:fine specimen of the Stavekirke or timber-built See also:church), Aanstad and Polfos, with beautiful falls of the Otta river, to Grotlid, whence roads diverge to Stryn on the See also:Nordfjord, and to Marok on the Geirangerfjord; (b) past Domaas (with See also:branch road See also:north to Storen near See also:Trondhjem, skirting the Dovrefjeld), over the watershed formed by Lesjekogen Lake, which drains in both directions, and down through the magnificent See also:Romsdal.

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