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Else Olaug Mundal (born 8 November 1944) is a Norwegian philologist.

She was born in Vanylven and graduated with the cand.philol. degree in 1971. She was appointed as a docent in Norse philology at the University of Oslo in 1977. Being promoted to professor in 1985, she was a professor at the University of Bergen from 1994. [1] She is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. [2] In 2017 she was appointed a knight of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon in connection with the state visit of Iceland's president to Norway. [3]

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  1. "Else Olaug Mundal". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  2. "Group 5: Philology and Linguistics". Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters . Retrieved 7 January 2018.
  3. "| Forseti.is". Forseti.is. Archived from the original on 2018-12-10. Retrieved 2018-08-02.