Finn Hødnebø
Male, Deceased Person
1919 – 2007
Who was Finn Hødnebø?
Finn Hødnebø was a Norwegian philologist and a lexicographer. He was most associated with his translations from Old Norse and Medieval Norwegian texts.
Finn Hødnebø was born in Søndeled, in Aust-Agder county, Norway. He graduated with the cand.philol. degree in 1948. He was Professor of Scandinavian Languages at the University of Oslo and chair of the department of old Norwegian and the Norwegian, Norwegian Institute of lexicographical. His works with Old Norse and Medieval Norwegian texts included the work Corpus Codicum Norvegicorum Medii Aevi. He was the Norwegian editor of Kulturhistorisk leksikon for nordisk middelalder.
He received the King's Medal of Merit in Gold.
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