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ODDE, or ODDA

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 996 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ODDE, or ODDA , a See also:village of See also:Norway, in See also:South Bergenhus amt (See also:county), on the Stir See also:Fjord, a See also:head-See also:branch of the See also:great Hardanger Fjord. It is 48 m. directly S.E. of See also:Bergen, but 123 by See also:water (to Eide), road (to See also:Vossevangen), and See also:rail thenceforward, or about the same distance by water alone. It is one of the See also:principal tourist-centres in See also:southern Norway, being at 'the end of the road from Breifond (27 m.) near which the routes join from See also:Stavanger by See also:Sand, See also:Lake Suldal, and the See also:Bratlandsdal, and from the south-eastern See also:coast towns by the See also:Telemark. This road, descending from the Horrebraekke, passes through the See also:gorge of Seljestadjuvet, passes the Espelandsfos and Lotefos falls, and skirts the Sandven lake. Odde is also a centre for several favourite excursions, as to the Buarbrae, one of the glaciers descending from the great Folgefond snowfield, situated in a precipitous valley (Jordal) to the See also:west of Sandven lake; to the Skjaeggedalsfos, a magnificent fall (525 ft.); or across the Folgefond to Suldal, a station on the Mauranger branch of the Hardanger fjord. Touring steamers and frequent See also:local steamers from Bergen See also:call at Odde, and there are several large hotels. 2 The See also:late See also:Roman chronicler Trebellius See also:Pollio goes further and asserts " Odenatus rex Palmyrenorum optinuit totius Orientis imperium. . . See also:Gallienus Odenatum participato imperio Augustum vocavit,",Hist. Aug. See also:xxiii. 10 and 12. This is not See also:borne out by the See also:evidence.

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rank claimed for him by his own See also:people is recorded in an inscription dated 271 (N.S.I. No.

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