[1] Vagant.no publishes web-articles on a weekly basis, while the paper edition is released 4 times a year.
[2] Vagant played an important role for the generation of Norwegian writers making their debut in the nineties, such as Ingvild Burkey, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Pål Norheim, and Linn Ullmann.
[3] The journal takes its name from the Norwegian word Vaganterne, which comes from the Latin clerici vagantes which describes a group of wandering students from the middle ages, who performed under the patronage of a wealthy nobleman or woman, and often their poems provoked the strict moral system of the church.
Among the editors of the first couple of volumes were Torunn Borge, Alf van der Hagen, Henning Hagerup, Pål Norheim, and Linn Ullmann.
[7] In 2009 the Internet initiative “Vagant Europa” was established, with an intention to publish and translate significant articles from the European literary and cultural debate.