{"id":1296,"date":"2011-11-09T14:35:13","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T14:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2014-08-22T17:59:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T17:59:36","slug":"the-valdres-region-of-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/the-valdres-region-of-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"The Valdres Region of Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The other day I posted about Rakfisk Festival, which is a festival that takes place every year in celebration of fermented trout and char, as well as other local food production and handicrafts. \u00a0Fagernes, a small city in the region of Valdres, Norway is where the annual festival takes place. \u00a0Although I\u00b4ve driven through Valdres, I did not really know that much about the region&#8211;until now. \u00a0So, I thought I\u00b4d write a bit about the Valdres region of Norway and what it is known for, what one can do there, etc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>First, I\u00b4d like to begin by saying that the dialects people speak from this central region of the country are <strong>very\u00a0<\/strong>different than the rest of the country. When I studied at the University of Oslo,\u00a0I had a class with a girl named Karine who was from Valdres \u00a0and I could literally barely understand her. \u00a0My Norwegian is by no means perfect, but I am fluent and I can understand all other dialects I\u00b4ve heard. \u00a0This one was tough though. \u00a0I mean, it was almost like the different between spoken Norwegian and Danish-she used completely different words sometimes. \u00a0For example, here are some words where you can see a marked difference between a Valdres dialect and standard bokm\u00e5l:<\/p>\n<p><em>Examples of local words<\/em>\u00a0<strong>Squirrel<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Norwegian: ekorn, Valdres: ik\u00f8dn\u00a0<strong>All right<\/strong>\u00a0(as in\u00a0<em>an all right person<\/em>) &#8211; Norwegian: grei, Valdres: snodig (which in Norwegian normally means strange\/funny)\u00a0<strong>Lonely<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Norwegian: ensomt, Valdres: aule<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1298\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/11\/175px-Norway_Counties_Oppland_Position.svg_.png\" aria-label=\"175px Norway Counties Oppland Position.svg \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1298\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1298\"  alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"187\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/11\/175px-Norway_Counties_Oppland_Position.svg_.png\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oppland County<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Let\u00b4s move on to geography and demographics. \u00a0Valdres belongs to the <strong>fylke<\/strong> (county) of <em>Oppland<\/em> and is made up of 6 municipalities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>S\u00f8r-Aurdal (The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bagn)<\/li>\n<li>Nord-Aurdal (The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Fagernes)<\/li>\n<li>Vestre Slidre (The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Slidre)<\/li>\n<li>\u00d8ystre Slidre (The administrative centre of the municipality is the village Heggenes)<\/li>\n<li>Etnedal (The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Bruflat)<\/li>\n<li>Vang (The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vang i Valdres)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Valdres is situated between the valleys of <em>Gudbrandsdal<\/em> and <em>Hallingdal<\/em> (<strong>dal<\/strong> means valley) approximately halfway between Oslo and Bergen. \u00a0The major European highway E16 runs through it and it also has an airport (in Fagernes). \u00a0This part of the country is stunning with all of the mountain ranges and valleys and small farms.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Historically, agriculture was a major industry in Valdres, but today tourism and trout fishing have surpassed agriculture as forms of livelihood. \u00a0There is plenty to do for tourists who visit Valdres. \u00a0Valdres is well known, as mentioned earlier, for trout fishing, as well as cycling, hiking, horse riding, rafting, golf, and of course skiing in the winter.<\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">Let\u00b4s go to Valdres!\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/11\/images-6.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>The other day I posted about Rakfisk Festival, which is a festival that takes place every year in celebration of fermented trout and char, as well as other local food production and handicrafts. \u00a0Fagernes, a small city in the region of Valdres, Norway is where the annual festival takes place. \u00a0Although I\u00b4ve driven through&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/the-valdres-region-of-norway\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":1301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,8,2332],"tags":[110855,110862,110856],"class_list":["post-1296","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-language","category-nature","tag-fagernes","tag-oppland","tag-valdres"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}