Valdres

Valdres

1. A traditional district in Innlandet, Norway, the main town is Fagernes.
   • 1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, page 460:

     Mention must be made of the Valdres Folk Museum, situated just outside the town—one of those fascinating open-air museums for which Scandinavia is justly famed, to which have been transplanted a number of ancient buildings, such as farmhouses and storehouses, full of appropriate furniture, costumes and other exhibits.

From both Old Norse vǫllr (“field, flat ground, meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”), from Proto-Indo-European *wolHt- or *wel- (“to see”) + and from Old Norse dres (“a cleaved road to be ridden on by a horse”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋaldrəs/

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• Rhymes: -əs
• Hyphenation: Val‧dres

Valdres

1. Valdres (a traditional district of Innlandet, Eastern Norway, Norway)

• “Valdres” in Store norske leksikon

• delsvar