His father and grandparents emigrated to the U.S. in 1850 from Vestre Slidre in the Oppland, Norway.
Valdres includes the area extending from Jotunheimen down to Bagn at Begna river.
Sörli the Strong is a son of the king of Oppland, and is at feud with Halfdan Brana's Foster Son (now king of Sweden).
Norwegian Church records, the accuracy of which is subject to dispute, also show what appear to be several supercentenarians who lived in the south-central part of present-day Norway during the 16th and 17th centuries, including Johannes Torpe (1549–1664), and Knud Erlandson Etun (1659–1770), both residents of Valdres, Oppland, Norway.
The church is a four-post single-nave stave church originally built around 1200 in the parish of Vang in the Valdres region of Norway.
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Vestre Ådal is the site of Viker Church and the Ådal Mountains (Ådalsfjellene), a small mountain range which stretches from Ådal to Vassfarfoten on the border with Vassfaret and Sør-Aurdal in Oppland.
The Norwegian writer, Mikkjel Fønhus lived much of his life and located most of his novels along the Begna in Oppland.
The Billingsdal is a valley in the municipality of Skjåk, Oppland county, Norway.
It occupies 1,693 km² and encompasses areas in three Norwegian counties: Oppland, Sør-Trøndelag, and Møre og Romsdal and includes large parts of the mountain range of Dovrefjell.
Jan Økseter (born 19 February 1945 in Aurdal, Oppland) is a retired Norwegian handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
His birthplace and childhood home was in Boverdal valley in Lom, Oppland, Norway; it is now part of the Lom District Museum.
Torstein Seiersten (born 22 February 1931 in Brandbu, Oppland) is a Norwegian speed skater.
Trond-Arne Bredesen (born February 4, 1967 in Gran, Oppland) is a Norwegian nordic combined from 1986 to 1991, representing Gran I.L. in Hadeland.
Since 1999 she has been a member of Lillehammer city council and at the Norwegian parliamentary election in 2009 she was her party's first candidate on the county ballot for Oppland.
Vassfaret is a desolate mountain valley in southern Norway, bordering Flå, Nes, Ringerike and Sør-Aurdal municipalities and Oppland and Buskerud counties.