Background
He was born in Oslo, finished his secondary education in 1939, and graduated with the candidate.mag.
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He was born in Oslo, finished his secondary education in 1939, and graduated with the candidate.mag.
He is especially known for his work with Icelandic culture, and language and literature. degree in 1946 and the candidate.philol. degree in 1949. From 1950 he worked at the University of Iceland, as a research fellow until 1952 and then lecturer in the Norwegian language. He left the University of Iceland in 1960, and after two years as a high school teacher in Notodden, he was a lecturer in Norwegian at Lund University from 1962 to 1969.
In 1969 he also took the dr.philos. degree.
The doctorate, on the subject of Stefán frá Hvítadal, was taken at the University of Iceland, and Orgland was the first foreigner to do southern From 1969 to 1973 he was a lecturer at the Oslo Teachers" College, and from 1973 to 1979 he was a lecturer in the Icelandic language at the University of Oslo.