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About Harald Bjorvand
- Harald Bjorvand (born 30 July 1942) is a Norwegian linguist. He was born in Askim, and graduated from the University of Oslo in 1970.
- He was a research fellow at the same institution from 1972 to 1974, amanuensis from 1974 to 1987, associate professor from 1987 and professor from 1990.
- He took the dr.philos.
- degree in 1988 with the thesis Holt og Holtar.
- Om utviklingen av det indoeuropeiske kollektivum i norrønt på sammenlignende grunnlag.His fields of specialty are general comparative language history, general Indo-Germanic linguistics, all archaic Germanic languages (Old West Norse, Gothic, Old High German etc.), and Germanic linguistics in general, including runes, morphology and etymology.His most famous work is a new etymological dictionary (Våre Arveord "Our inherited words") for Norwegian, which is a collaboration with Fredrik Otto Lindeman, another linguist professor in the Indo-Germanic field.
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