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Vågå stave church is the second oldest stave church in the country, which was constructed around 1150 and originally dedicated to St. Peter.
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Vågå Church (() is a historic stave church located in Vågå in Oppland county, Norway.
Vågå Stave Church, which was constructed around 1150, is one of the older stave churches in Norway.
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The crucifix at Vågå church is early Gothic work, dating from the mid 13th century.
Vågå and is
The municipality is bordered on the north by Oppdal municipality, on the east by Folldal, on the south by Sel and Vågå, and on the northwest by Lesja.
Lesja is bordered in the north by the municipalities of Nesset, Sunndal, and Oppdal ; in the east by Dovre ; in the south by Vågå and Lom ; in the southwest by Skjåk ; and to the west by Rauma.
Vågå () is a municipality in Oppland county, Norway.
Vågå is bordered on the north by the municipality of Lesja, in the east by Dovre and Sel, in the southeast by Nord-Fron, in the south by Vang and Øystre Slidre, and in the West by Lom.
Vågå is mentioned in the Heimskringla () by Snorri Sturluson.
Nord-Fron is bordered to the north by Sel municipality, to the south and east by Sør-Fron, in the south by Gausdal and Øystre Slidre, and in the southwest by Vågå.
Sel is bordered on the north by Dovre and Vågå municipalities, and on the south by Nord-Fron municipality.
Vang is bordered to the north by the municipalities of Lom and Vågå, to the east by Øystre Slidre, to the southeast by Vestre Slidre, to the south by Hemsedal ( in Buskerud county ), and to the west by Lærdal and Årdal ( in Sogn og Fjordane county ).
The " buck-ride " story, which Peer tells his mother in the play's first scene, is also from this source, but, as Åse points out, it was originally Gudbrand Glesne from Vågå who did the tour with the reindeer stag and finally shot it.
The valley is divided into three parts: Norddalen ( the municipalities of Lesja, Dovre, Skjåk, Lom, Vågå and Sel ), Midtdalen ( the municipalities of Nord-Fron, Sør-Fron and Ringebu ), and Sørdalen ( the municipalities of Øyer, Gausdal and Lillehammer ).
There is a National Tourist Route, the Sognefjell Road, from Skjolden to Lom and another road, the RV 51, from Gol to Vågå through the special area of Valdresflya.
Lom is bordered on the northwest by the municipality of Skjåk, in the north by Lesja, in the east and southeast by Vågå, in the south by Vang all in Oppland county.
Although a side-note to the war, the Battle of Kringen, in which Scottish mercenary forces were defeated by Gudbrandsdal militiamen from Lesja, Dovre, Vaage ( Vågå ), Fron, Lom and Ringebu is a noted military event in Norway, celebrated to this day.
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He was the son of Johan Storm, the priest in Vågå, and his second wife, Ingeborg Birgitta Røring.
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Vågå includes a mountain road to the top of the tall Jetta mountain which provides an unobstructed view of both the Gudbrandsdal Valley and the surrounding national parks.
Vågå lies in the rain shadow from the Jotunheimen mountains which separate Eastern and Western Norway.
Gjesling descendants still own land in the Vågå region, Riddersandbu, which includes buildings built before 1600.
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In 1918, it was changed to " Vaagaa " and in 1921 the spelling was again changed to " Vågå ".
In 1130, Ivar Gjesling was the earliest-known owner of Sandbu ( just north of Vågåmo ) in Vågå.
The new municipality of Sel was created on 1 January 1908 when it was separated from Vågå municipality.
Ole H. J. Krag was born in Vågå, in Oppland county, Norway.
Jo Gjende, was born in Vågå, was buried in Vågå churchyard.
Ivar Jakobsson Kleven was born in Vågå, Oppland.
It was the folk tradition from his home community that was the subject of his first book, Segner from Vågå ( 1894 ).
Heidal parish was separated from Vågå as a separate municipality of its own on January 1, 1908.
Ragnvald Skrede was born in Vågå in Oppland county, Norway.
Edvard Storm ( 21 August 1749 – 29 September 1794 ), was a poet from Vågå, Oppland, Norway.
Gjesling ( or Gjæsling ) was an old family at Vågå in Oppland, Norway.
In 1130 Ivar Gjesling was the earliest-known owner of the farm Sandbu ( just south of Vågåmo ) in Vågå.
Vågå and .
The municipality lies on a historically significant traffic artery between Stryn and Nordfjord, Geiranger, and Sunnmøre and the more easterly Ottadal municipalities of Lom and Vågå.
The areas of Sel and Heidal were separated from the municipality of Vågå to become separate municipalities of their own on 1 January 1908.
The Vågå municipality lies in a mountainous region just to the north of Norway's Jotunheimen National Park, west of Rondane National Park, and south of the Dovrefjell mountains.
Exiting Vågåvatn at Vågåmo, the river continues its journey through the Ottadalen valley leaving Vågå municipality to meet the Gudbrandsdalslågen at Otta in the municipality of Sel.
The urban areas in Vågå are the villages of Vågåmo and Lalm.
This dry continental climate makes Vågå the obvious place for the national hang glider and para glider centre of Norway.
This limited glacial erosion also means that Vågå had limited glacier erosion during the last glacial period.
Farmers from Vågå participated in the successful attack on Scottish mercenary troops journeying to join Swedish forces in 1612.
Årestue ( open-hearth room ) from Tolstadskriden, Vågå, Oppland.
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The Otta River leads up to the historically important Vågå and Lom regions and the passes to the west over Jotunheimen.
Øystre Slidre shares borders with the municipalities of Nord-Aurdal and Vestre Slidre in the south, Vang in the west, Gausdal, Sør-Fron, and Nord-Fron to the east, and up to Valdresflya, at the border of Vågå in the north.
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