Editing Dovre (section)

==History==
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| {{flag|Poland}}||60
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| {{flag|Syria}}||30
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| {{flag|Lithuania}}||21
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| {{flag|Somalia}}||20
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| {{flag|Eritrea}}||14
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People have lived at Dovre for about 6,000 years. In the [[Stone Age]], they were primarily [[hunters]] and [[fishermen]]. Approximately 2,000 years ago, the first farms were developed at this location.

Dovre is mentioned in ''[[Heimskringla]]'' (''The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway'') by [[Snorri Sturluson]]. In 1021, King [[Olaf II of Norway|Olaf]] laid hold of all the best men, both at [[Lesja]] and Dovre, and forced them either to receive [[Christianity]] or [[Capital punishment|suffer death]], if they were not so lucky as to escape.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Larson |first=Karen K. |title=A History of Norway |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=1948 |isbn=978-0-691-05127-7}}</ref>

The [[Pilgrim's Route]] (Old King's Road) between [[Oslo]] and [[Trondheim]] in the 16th century passed through the [[Gudbrandsdal]] valley. After leaving the [[Gudbrandsdalslågen|Lågen]] river valley (downriver from present day [[Dombås]]) the road passed over the [[Dovrefjell]] mountains into the present-day municipality of Dovre. The heavy stream of annual [[pilgrims]] who visited the shrine of [[St. Olaf]] in Trondheim prior to the [[Protestant Reformation]] resulted in the construction of [[mountain]] stations along the route where the pilgrims could find [[food]] and shelter. In speaking of this route, Gjerset quotes [[Peder Claussøn Friis]] as writing:
{{blockquote|But in the [[winter]] people of high estate, as well as members of the [[Noble court|court]], travel mostly this way, because however high and deep the [[snow]] may fall, it blows together on the high mountains and becomes so hard men and [[horse]]s can walk on it. The [[Farmer|bonder]] run over it on [[Skiing|skis]] and [[snowshoes]]. There are three stations: Drivstuen, [[Hjerkinn|Herdekinn]], and Fogstuen built on this same mountain in order that travelers may find lodging there....at the stations there are implements and dry wood, so that the traveler may build themselves [[fire]], and not suffer from cold, when they have to remain over night, and cannot find the way across the mountain.|Knut Gjerset, ''The History of the Norwegian People''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gjerset |first=Knut |title=The History of the Norwegian People |publisher=The MacMillan Company |year=1915 |isbn=978-1-4326-3238-0 |location=New York}}</ref>}}

The [[Battle of Kringen]] (''Slaget ved Kringen'') took place in August 1612, just downstream of Dovre, where the [[Scotland|Scottish]] force stayed on 24 August 1612.