Bøverdal or Bøverdalen is a valley in
Lom Municipality
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in
Innlandet county,
Norway
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. The long valley lies on the south side of the main
Ottadalen valley. The valley begins at the Bøverbrean
glacier
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, just west of the
Smørstabbtindene mountains and it then follows the river Bøvra to the northeast to the village of
Fossbergom where the valley ends and the river joins the river
Otta. The
Leirdalen and
Visdalen valleys are side valleys that lead to the Bøverdalen valley. The valley is the dividing line between the
Breheimen mountains to the northwest and the
Jotunheimen mountains to the southeast.
For many centuries a transportation route traversed this valley which connected
Eastern Norway and
Western Norway. It started at
Fossbergom and then it followed the valley to the southwest before crossing the
Sognefjellet mountains and then entering the Bergsdalen valley which leads into the
Sogn region of
Western Norway.
The tall
Saga Column (), was erected in Bøverdalen in 1992. The history of the column is very convoluted. It started in 1926, when
sculptor
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Wilhelm Rasmussen (1879–1965) won the competition for a column celebrating the
Norwegian Constitution. The monument () was originally intended to be placed by the
Norwegian parliament in
Oslo
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. The column shows the
history of Norway from the time of the first king,
Harald Fairhair in 872 to the first national assembly at
Eidsvoll
Eidsvoll (; sometimes written as ''Eidsvold'') is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Akershus Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Romerike Districts of Norway, traditional region. The administrative centre of the munic ...
in 1814.
References
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Lom, Norway
Valleys of Innlandet