Background
Øidne was born in 1918 in Konsmo.
Øidne was born in 1918 in Konsmo.
University of Oslo.
Analyzing regional differences in party choice in Norway, he was the first to pinpoint factors relating to relations of production as well as counter-cultural cleavages when describing distinctions between Eastern and Western Norway. He also wrote several works on his native region, Agder, among others on the so-called child migration in older times. He took the candidate.philol. degree at the University of Oslo in 1950, with the paper Audnedalen—a work on his native valley.