Else Mundal Explained

Else Olaug Mundal (born 8 November 1944) is a Norwegian philologist.

She was born in Vanylven and graduated with the cand.philol. degree in 1971. She was appointed as a docent in Norse philology at the University of Oslo in 1977. Being promoted to professor in 1985, she was a professor at the University of Bergen from 1994.^[1] She is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[2] In 2017 she was appointed a knight of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon in connection with the state visit of Iceland's president to Norway.^[3]

Bibliography (selection)

• Odd Einar Haugen, Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen og Jonas Wellendorf (red.): "Fjǫld veit hon frœða: Utvalde arbeid av Else Mundal", Oslo: Novus, 2012.
• Else Mundal and Håkan Rydving (red.): Samer som «de andra», samer om "de andra". Identitet och etnicitet i nordiska kulturmöten, Umeå: Samiska studier, Umeå universitet, 2010.
• Slavica Ranković, Leidulf Melve og Else Mundal: Along the oral-written continuum. Types of texts, relations and their implications, Turnhout: Brepols, 2010.
• Jon Gunnar Jørgensen, Karsten Friis-Jensen og Else Mundal (red.): Saxo og Snorre, København: Museum Tusculanums Forlag, 2010.
• Else Mundal and Jonas Wellendorf: Oral art forms and their passage into writing, København: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2008.
• Else Mundal and Simonetta Battista (red.): Reykholt som makt- og lærdomssenter. I den islandske og nordiske kontekst, Reykholt: Snorrastofa, 2006.
• Else Mundal and Anne Ågotnes (red.): Ting og tekst, Bergen: Bryggens museum, 2002.
• Else Mundal and Ingvild Øye (red.): Norm og praksis i middelaldersamfunnet, Bergen: Senter for europeiske kulturstudier, 1999.
• Ann Christensson, Else Mundal og Ingvild Øye (red.): Middelalderens symboler, Bergen: Senter for europeiske kulturstudier, 1997.
• Else Mundal: Legender frå mellomalderen. Soger om heilage kvinner og menn, Oslo: Samlaget, 1995.
• Else Mundal: Sagadebatt, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1977.
• Eskil Hanssen, Else Mundal og Kåre Skadberg: Norrøn grammatikk. Lydlære, formlære og syntaks i historisk, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1975.
• Else Mundal: Fylgjemotiva i norrøn litteratur, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1974.

Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Else Olaug Mundal. Store norske leksikon. Norwegian. 7 January 2018.
2. Web site: Group 5: Philology and Linguistics. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. 7 January 2018.
3. Web site: Forseti.is. Forseti.is. 2018-08-02. 2018-12-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20181210235119/https://www.forseti.is/falkaordan/orduhafaskra/#viewtype=;page=2. dead.