Gausdal

Gausdal is bordered on the northwest by Sør-Fron municipality, on the northeast by Ringebu and Øyer, on the southeast by Lillehammer, on the south by Nordre Land, on the southwest by Nord-Aurdal and Øystre Slidre.

The famous Peer Gynt mountain road begins here and leads to Vinstra.

A popular ski area is located on the south slope of Skeikampen mountain.

Western tributaries of the Gudbrandsdalslågen include the Gausa River, which flows through Gausdal valley.

Norway's smallest national park, Ormtjernkampen National Park, lies within the municipality.

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History

The Follebu stone church was built in the early middle ages (~1250). It is unusual in that the chancel and nave were built as one continuous piece.

In the 1880s there was mining for Nickel in Espedalen.

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Commerce

Logging, farming and tourism are important occupations.

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Famous residents

Norwegian writer Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832–1910) was a Norwegian author and Nobel Prize in Literature winner in 1903. Aulestad in Follebu, Gausdal was his primary residence from 1874 until his death in 1910.

Image:Torshov.JPG Norwegian writer Inge Krokann (1893–1962), who wrote dialect and idiosyncratic nynorsk works which are largely inaccessible to international readers but reputed to be very powerful, lived his later years and died in Gausdal.

Others included:

Reidar Engjom- politician
Brynhild Marie Foss - politician
Jan Erik Kristiansen - politician
Else Kveine - poet
Olav Olstad - politician
Abraham Pihl - theologian, astronomer and architect
Christen Smed - mountaineer
Hans Aanrud - author, who wrote plays, poetry, and stories depicting rural life in Norway.

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