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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
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Lillehammer, the centre of a See also:rich See also:timber district, is 114 M
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N. of See also:Christiania by See also:rail
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The railway continues through the well-wooded and cultivated valley to Otta (70 m.)
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Several tracks run westward into the See also:wild district of the See also:Jotunheim
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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: |
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