Rikard Berge was a Norwegian 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...

, museologist

Museology

Museology is the diachronic study of museums and how they have established and developed in their role as an educational mechanism under social and political pressures.-Overview:...

 biographer and magazine editor. He was born in Rauland

Rauland

This article is about the former municipality in Norway. For the American diplomat, see Scott Rauland.Rauland is a former municipality in Telemark County, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Vest-Telemark....

 in Vinje

Vinje

Vinje is a municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Vest-Telemark. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Åmot.-Name:...

, Telemark

Telemark

is a county in Norway, bordering Vestfold, Buskerud, Hordaland, Rogaland and Aust-Agder. The county administration is in Skien. Until 1919 the county was known as Bratsberg amt.-Location:...

. Berge started writing down traditional folklore from the rural districts of Telemark from he was twelve years old. Among his works are biographies of the fiddlers Myllarguten

Myllarguten

Targjei Augundsson , better known as Myllarguten , is arguably the most acknowledged Norwegian folk musician to this day, and by far the most legendary.-Childhood:...

 and Håvard Gibøen

Håvard Gibøen

Håvard Gibøen was a Norwegian fiddler and composer, born in Vinje in Telemark. Among his folk tunes are "Haavard Gibøens draum ved Oterholtsbrue" and "Gibøens bruremarsj". These tunes formed the basis for two compositions by Edvard Grieg, included in his opus 72, Slåtter.-References:...

, Norsk bondesylv from 1925, and the series Bygdedikting fraa Telemarki (23 volumes, from 1907 to 1933). He edited the magazine Norsk folkekultur from 1915 to 1935. He was curator of the County Museum of Telemark and Grenland

Telemark Museum

The Telemark Museum is located in Kleiva in the older part of Skien, Norway.-Telemark Museum:Telemark Museum is a consolidated museum which included a number of museums in within the Telemark area. It was founded in 1909 from a base at the Søndre Brekke farm. Telemark Museum is located within...

from 1916 to 1951.