Fridrik Thordarson (1928 – 2 October 2005) was an Icelandic linguist. Thordarson was born in

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, and studied

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in Oslo. In 1963 he took exams with Latin as his major and Greek and Indian philology as his minors. From 1965 onwards he taught classical philology as a lecturer and he became professor in 1994. He worked for most of his life in Norway. Apart from Classical languages, he became an expert in

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such as

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and

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. He published a grammar of Ossetic. Thordarson was a regular contributor and a consulting editor to

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Sources

University of Frankfurt

Bibliography

* Ossetic Grammatical Studies. Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2009.
An article on Ossetic grammar
by Fridrik Thordarson * 1928 births 2005 deaths Icelandic academics Academic staff of the University of Oslo Icelandic expatriates in Norway {{Iceland-academic-bio-stub