When she finished her secondary education at Voss in 1932, she had already attended Fana Folk High School.
She worked in the newspaper Gula Tidend from 1934 to 1935, and was a member of Vestmannalaget.
In her next collection, Eld av steinar ("Fire From Rocks", 1948) she coined the phrase Vi skal ikkje sova bort sumarnatta ("We shall not sleep away the summer night"), widely used today even out of its context.
Her next releases were Den einsame roaren (1952), Rit di rune (1957), Fest i september (1960) and Primulakveld (1964).
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