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2 unusual facts about Besseggen


Besseggen

«32 year old housewife with (and mother of) two kids ran like a goat over Besseggen» the newspaper Dagbladet reported.

JavaZone

At the weekend following JavaZone 2010 a two-day hike to Besseggen in Norway was organized for the speakers who wanted to attend.


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Gjende

For example Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt took his famous wild-reindeer ride along "the Gjendin Ridge", a reference to either the narrow Besseggen Ridge - or the Knutshø ridge on the other side of lake Gjende.

In the Vang dialect the lake is called Gjendin, which is the form you find in Henrik Ibsen's name for what is now called Besseggen, formerly Gjendineggen, or Gendineggen in the older orthography.


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