Rauma

Rauma follows the valley of the river of the same name down through the mountains to Romsdalsfjord. The valley offers a route between the western coast and the interior of Norway. During the Kalmar War in 1612, Scottish soldiers intending to enter Swedish service landed in Romsdal and marched inland along this route. At Kringen in Gudbrandsdalen, farmers assembled to block their passage and defeated them. Their expedition became known in Norway as the Skottetoget, the Scottish march.