Place:Oppland, Norway

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Name	Oppland
Alt names	Kristians amt	source: Family History Library Catalog
Type	County
Coordinates	61.167°N 9.667°E
Located in	Norway

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is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. The county administration is in Lillehammer. Oppland is, together with Hedmark, one of the only two landlocked counties of Norway.

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In the late Iron Age, Oppland was a petty kingdom.

Some kings of Oppland:

Eystein, father of Åsa who married Halfdan Hvitbeinn (see Ynglinga Saga, paragraph 49)
Halfdan "the Aged" Sveidasson (c. 750)
Ivar Halfdansson (c. 770)
Eystein "Glumra (the Noisy)" Ivarsson, son-in-law of Ragnvald the Mountain-High and father of Ragnvald Eysteinsson (788)

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