Velle Espeland | |
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Born |
Sør-Fron, Norway | 6 July 1945
Died | 10 January 2024
Oslo, Norway | (aged 78)
Alma mater | University of Oslo |
Occupation | Folklorist |
Velle Espeland (6 July 1945 – 10 January 2024) was a Norwegian folklorist.
Born in Sør-Fron on 6 July 1945, Espeland studied folkloristics at the University of Oslo. His cand.mag. thesis from 1974 was titled Folkesong i Bjerkreim. [1]
Espeland was assigned to Institutt for kulturstudier at the University of Oslo from 1974 to 2003. He also administrated the institution Norsk visearkiv from its foundation in 1983. [1]
Among his publications are two books about ghosts, the children's book Den store boka om spøkelser from 1999, and the factbook Spøkelse. Hvileløse gjengangere i tradisjon og historie from 2002. He also contributed text to the comic series Smørbukk and Tuss og Troll, and translated the Belgian comic strips Spirou & Fantasio and Marsupilami into Norwegian language. [1]
In 2014 he was awarded the Rff prize from Rådet for folkemusikk og folkedans, [2] a subsidary of Arts Council Norway, [3] for his contributions to Norsk visearkiv. [2]
Espeland died in Oslo on 10 January 2024, at the age of 78. [1] [4]