Matias Skard was a Norwegian philologist, educator, psalmist, essayist and translator, a brother of folklorist

Folklore

Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...

 Johannes Skar

Johannes Skar

Johannes Skar was a Norwegian folklorist, a brother of educator Matias Skard. His main contribution is the work Gamalt or Sætesdal , a collection of eight volumes of folklore from the valley Setesdal.-References:...

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He chaired the Vonheim folk high school

Folk high school

Folk high schools are institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses might exist leading to that goal...

 from 1884 to 1890, and was manager for the Agder

Agder

Agder is a historical district of Norway in the southernmost region of Norway, corresponding to the two counties Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder. Today, the term Sørlandet is more commonly used.-Name:...

 school district from 1901 to 1921. His Nynorsk

Nynorsk

Nynorsk or New Norwegian is one of two official written standards for the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. The standard language was created by Ivar Aasen during the mid-19th century, to provide a Norwegian alternative to the Danish language which was commonly written in Norway at the...

 dictionary from 1912, Nynorsk ordbok for rettskriving og literaturlesnad, has been basis for several later editions. From 1886 to 1890 he was a co-editor of the newspaper Framgang

Framgang

Framgang was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Lillehammer in Oppland county.It was started in 1886 as a Liberal organ for people affiliated with Vonheim Folk High School. Editors-in-chief were Johan Filseth and Matias Skard. Skard left Vonheim in 1890, and Filseth became the sole editor...

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