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About Egil Pettersen
- Egil Pettersen (4 March 1922 – 27 November 2010) was a Norwegian philologist. He was born in Bergen and grew up in Fana.
- He took the cand.philol.
- degree in 1950, and was a lecturer at Stockholm University, teacher at Bergen Handelsgymnasium and Bergen Teachers' College.
- He was hired at the University of Bergen in 1958, and was a professor of North Germanic languages from 1971 to 1989, being a scholar on medieval language.
- He was a member of the Norwegian Language Council from 1972 to 1991, and of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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