{"id":1454,"date":"2023-10-27T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2025-11-06T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:04:15","slug":"qvigstad-eventyr-og-sagn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/qvigstad-eventyr-og-sagn\/","title":{"rendered":"Qvigstad - Fairy tales and legends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The most important source of Sami legends and fairy tales is Just Qvigstad's four volumes of \u201dLappish Fairy Tales and Legends\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qvigstad was born in Lyngseidet in 1853 and died in 1957. He was rector of the teacher training college in Troms\u00f8, a philologist, folklorist and researcher on Sami languages. Qvigstad was also a politician and minister for the Ministry of Church Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qvigstad devoted the last 40 years of his life to the study of S\u00e1mi culture and history, and also to linguistic research in Finnish Kven and S\u00e1mi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His work resulted in many large collections of texts. He also used his large network of teacher contacts in the northern counties to collect legends and fairy tales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just Qvigstad's publications are digitally available at the National Library of Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nb.no\/nbsok\/search?searchString=title:%22Rektor%20Just%20Knud%20Qvigstad%20%2886%20%C3%A5r%29%20forteller:%20Gamle%20skoleminner%20og%20lappisk%20folklore.%22&amp;page=0\">Headmaster Just Knud Qvigstad (86) talks on the radio: Old school memories and Lappish folklore, National Library of Norway<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nb.no\/nbsok\/nb\/a989e176d3f22645da37787ba77a8704?lang=no#0\">Sami stories, digital book, National Library of Norway<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nb.no\/nbsok\/nb\/3e1f11c81dd496707863430a60f3b527?index=20#1\">Fairy tales and legends from Lyngen, digital book, National Library of Norway<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nb.no\/nbsok\/search?page=0&amp;menuOpen=false&amp;instant=true&amp;action=search&amp;currentHit=-1&amp;currentSesamid=&amp;deweyClass=&amp;deweyLevel=0&amp;deweyMenuOpen=false&amp;searchString=Lappiske%20eventyr%20og%20sagn\">Overview of Lappish fairy tales and legends at the National Library of Norway<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More about Just Qvigstad:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/no.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Just_Qvigstad\">About Just Qvigstad in Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nbl.snl.no\/Just_Qvigstad\">About Just Qvigstad in the Norwegian Biographical Encyclopaedia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most important source of Sami legends and fairy tales is Just Qvigstad's four volumes of \u201dLappish Fairy Tales and Legends\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fortellinger-sagn-og-myter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}