Jakob Vaage

Jakob Vaage (9 February 1905 – 29 January 1994) was a Norwegian educator, author and historian.

[citation needed] During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he was imprisoned along with hundred of other Norwegian school teachers.

[2] As a skier in Ullern SK, he was also goalkeeper for the team that in 1937 played Norway's first handball match against SK Arild at Akershus Fortress and afterwards founded the Norwegian Handball Federation.

He wrote many books about Norwegian skiing including Skikongen Lauritz Bergendahl (1975) and Den satt!

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