GUDBRANDSDAL, a district of southern Norway, com prising the upper course of the river Lougen from Lillehammer at the head of Lake Mjosen to its source in Lake Lesjeskogen and tributary valleys. Lillehammer is the centre of a rich timber district. The railway from Oslo reaches as far as Damaas. Several tracks run westward into the wild district of the Jotun heim. From Otta routes run across the watershed and descend the western slope, where the scenery is incomparably finer than in Gudbrandsdal itself—(a) past Sorum, with the 13th-century churches of Vaage and Lom, Aanstad and Polfosen, with beauti ful falls of the Otta river, to Grotli, where roads diverge to Stryn on the Nordfjord, and to Meraak on the Geirangerf ford; (b) past Damaas (with branch road north to Storen near Trond hjem, skirting the Dovrefjeld), over the watershed formed by Lesjeskogen Lake, which drains in both directions, and down through the magnificent Romsdal.