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.
Pillarguri first appears in written form in Sagn, samlede i Gudbrandsdalen om Slaget ved Kringen, 26de August 1612 written during 1838 by Hans Peter Schnitler Krag, the minister in Vågå.
Sigvat jumped across the river Sjoa at this narrow point in the canyon, with a beautiful girl from Vågå.
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Perhaps the most easy definition is to state that the valley draining Sjoa is named Sjodalen in Vågå and Heidal in Sel municipalities.
Vågå | Vaga (town) | Vaga |
Kholmogory and Vazhsky Diocese Council established by decree in 1682, was composed of the north-eastern part of the territory of the Novgorod metropolis, the city of Arkhangelsk and Holmogory with counties, Kevrol, Mezen, Kola, Pustozersk, Vaga, a quarter Vazhsky to award a Ustyanovskimi parishes, the Solovetsky monastery.
The first 7 years of his life were spent in the Vågå rectory, until he began school in 1756 in Christiania.
Krag grew up in various locations where his father, Hans Peter Schnitler Krag (1794–1855), served as pastor, including Vågå, Fredrikshald (Halden) and Christiania (Oslo).
It then exits the Vågåvatn at Vågåmo and continues its journey through the Ottadal leaving Vågå municipality to meet the Gudbrandsdalslågen river at the town of Otta in Sel municipality.
Visdals kvintett was a Norwegian gammaldansgroup who existed between 1987 and 1999, and came from Vågå, Lom og Sør-Fron.