Editing Vestre Slidre (section)

== History ==
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|+ Number of minorities (1st and 2nd generation) in Vestre Slidre by country of origin in 2017<ref>{{Cite web |title=Immigrants and Norwegian-born to immigrant parents, by immigration category, country background and percentages of the population |url=https://www.ssb.no/statistikkbanken/selectvarval/Define.asp?subjectcode=&ProductId=&MainTable=FolkInnvkatLand&nvl=&PLanguage=1&nyTmpVar=true&CMSSubjectArea=befolkning&KortNavnWeb=innvbef&StatVariant=&checked=true |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702101705/https://www.ssb.no/statistikkbanken/selectvarval/Define.asp?subjectcode=&ProductId=&MainTable=FolkInnvkatLand&nvl=&PLanguage=1&nyTmpVar=true&CMSSubjectArea=befolkning&KortNavnWeb=innvbef&StatVariant=&checked=true |archive-date=2 July 2015 |access-date=29 June 2015 |publisher=ssb.no}}</ref>
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| {{flag|Lithuania}} || 29
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| {{flag|Netherlands}} || 23
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| {{flag|Eritrea}} || 18
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High above the village of [[Slidre]], there is an ancient burial ground called the [[Gardberg site]]. At this site, there is a [[runestone]] which reads ''I Godguest wrote the runes''. This stone is known as the [[Einang stone]].

Vestre Sildre figures prominently in the Norse [[Saga]]s:
*According to the Sagas, [[Harald I of Norway|Harald Fairhair]] was the first [[List of Norwegian monarchs|Norwegian king]] (872–930) of Norway. In 866, he made the first of a series of conquests over a number of [[petty kingdom]]s. One of the encounters leading to the overall conquest was with Skallagrim Kveldulvssøn in Vestre Slidre. In 872, after winning the [[Battle of Hafrsfjord]] near [[Stavanger]], he found himself king of the whole country.<ref name="Stagg">{{Cite book |last=Stagg |first=Frank Noel |url=https://archive.org/details/eastnorwayitsfro00stag |title=East Norway and its Frontier |publisher=George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. |year=1956}}</ref>
* In the [[Heimskringla]] attributed to [[Snorri Sturluson]], it is recorded that in 1023 [[Olaf II of Norway|King Olav]] came unannounced from [[Sogn]] as part of his campaign to Christianize Norway. At Slidre, he caught the peasants unaware and secured all their boats. As a condition for having their boats restored, they accepted [[Christianity]].<ref name="Stagg" />