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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Reimund Kvideland in
memoriam<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>A sad message has reached
us. Professor Reimund Kvideland, former President of SIEF, suddenly and
unexpectedly died on June 6, 2006, at an age of 71. He had retired from his
official positions, but remained active in research, kept contacts with his
former institute in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bergen</st1:place></st1:City>
and with international scholars.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Reimund Kvideland (b. in
1935) started his career in 1966 as a lecturer in folklore at the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Bergen</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, where he contributed to the
establishment of a discipline with focus on contemporary processes and
traditions. From 1991 to 1997 he was director of the Nordic Institute of
Folklore in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Turku</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Finland</st1:country-region></st1:place>,, a position where he
displayed both his administrative and scientific competences. Many of us also
remember with gratitude the hospitality of Reimund and his wife Karin during
these years in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Finland</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>His scholarly publications
cover several fields: narrative and singing tradition with a focus on the
transmission of folk stories and songs; fairy tales, legends and songs, with a
focus on text analysis; children’s lore in contexts of practice, and
religious memorates within a context of popular religion.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Reimund Kvideland was also a
research administrator, He was the first chairman of NEFA – the Nordic
ethnological and folkloristic working group, an important forum for those who
wanted to rejuvenate ethnology and folklore since the late 1960s. In 1971 he
started Tradisjon, a scientific journal of modern Norwegian folklore, where he
remained the editor for 25 years. He was elected president (1989-95) of the
International Society for Folk Narrative Research, and he was president of SIEF
from 1987 to 1990. During many years he was a contributor to Internationale
volkskundliche Bibliographie.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>His profile was that of an
international researcher and administrator, his contacts all over the world
were numerous, and his generosity towards other scholars was well known among
his colleagues. I still remember with gratitude the enthusiasm with which he
received my first and very, very modest text – a book review – for
his journal Tradisjon, a prime example of how to encourage younger colleagues.
This memory blends with later debates and pleasant talks, as well as with
hospitality and merry evenings. Reimund was not only a respected scholar, but
also a colleague in the best sense of the word.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Bjarne Rogan, <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oslo</st1:place></st1:City><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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