Just Knud Qvigstad, 1853-1957, was my great-grandmother’s brother. Mayor of Tromso, Norway, he was also a linguist. He published over a hundred academic papers on the Sami language and Sami history. I have recently been hunting for his work, but unfortunately I cannot read Norwegian. My smartphone translator claims to translate from Norwegian, but produces something unintelligible. I found one volume in French, which I can read, and have begun translating it.
| Photo : S. Blom (ed.): Den Kongelige Norske St. Olavs Orden, A. M. Hanches Forlag, 1934. Photographer not named. Public Domain. From Wikipedia. |