Jan Ragnar Hagland
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Jan Ragnar Hagland (born 3 March 1943 in Haugesund) is a Norwegian philologist; a professor of Old Norse at NTNU. He has worked at NTNU since 1972, and became professor in 1986.
Hagland has translated several sagas of Icelanders to Nynorsk (including Landnámabók, Njáls saga, Gísla saga), translated the Frostathing Law to modern Norwegian, and was joint author of Handbok i norrøn filologi (2004) and Trøndersk språkhistorie (2008), amongst others.
He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[1] In 2017, he was named a member of the Order of the Falcon as part of the state visit of the President of Iceland to Norway.[2]
References
- ^ "Group 5: Philology and Linguistics". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
- ^ Orðuhafaskrá Archived 2017-04-16 at the Wayback Machine, overview of the visit of the President of Iceland. Accessed 15 April 2017.
External links
- Allkunne.no, biography
- List of publications by Jan Ragnar Hagland in CRIStin
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