Background
Finn Hødnebø was born in Søndeled, in Aust-Agder county, Norway.
lexicographer linguist philologist professor
Finn Hødnebø was born in Søndeled, in Aust-Agder county, Norway.
He graduated with the candidate.philol.
He was most associated with his translations from Old Norse and Medieval Norwegian texts. degree in 1948. He was Professor of Scandinavian Languages at the University of Oslo (1972) and chair of the department of old Norwegian and the Norwegian, Norwegian Institute of lexicographical (1985). He was the Norwegian editor of Kulturhistorisk leksikon for nordisk middelalder (1955–1978).