Bjarne Berulfsen

Bjarne Berulfsen (March 27, 1906 – October 9, 1970) was a Norwegian philologist and professor, best known for establishing the Friends of Folk Song Club (Norwegian: Visens venner) in 1946 and for writing many books translated into several languages.

[1] He passed his university admission exam (examen artium) in 1925 and then received a candidatus philologiæ degree in historical linguistics in 1932.

[1] He received his PhD in 1949[1] with the dissertation Kulturtradisjon fra en storhetstid (Cultural Tradition from a Golden Age), which was based on private correspondence from the 15th century,[2] and he was also hosted at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1958.

[3] He was the father of the journalist Torkjell Berulfsen and also wrote lyrics and performed them while playing piano.

Together with others, Berulfsen showed how Norwegian folk tales influenced the Bokmål written standard in separating from the prevailing written language: Danish influenced by Latin and German.