Knut Aastad Bråten (born 1976) is a Norwegian magazine editor. He is a grandson of ski jumper Johanne Kolstad. An ethnologist by education, he edited the

Norwegian folk music Much has been learned about early music in Norway from physical artifacts found during archaeological digs. These include instruments such as the lur. Viking and medieval sagas also describe musical activity, as do the accounts of priests and pil ...

magazine ''Spelemannsbladet'' from 2007. He is an able

langeleik The ''langeleik'', also called langleik, is a Norwegian stringed folklore musical instrument, a droned zither. Description The langeleik has only one melody string and up to 8 drone strings. Under the melody string there are seven frets per oct ...

player himself. In 2010 the magazine was discontinued, but resurfaced as ''Folkemusikk''. In 2014 he took over as editor of ''

Syn og Segn ''Syn og Segn'' is a Norwegian quarterly cultural and political periodical published in Oslo, Norway. History and profile ''Syn og Segn'' was founded in 1894, and Rasmus Flo and Arne Garborg were the first editors. The magazine is published in N ...

''.

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1976 births Living people People from Nord-Aurdal Norwegian folk musicians Norwegian ethnologists Norwegian magazine editors Nynorsk-language writers Norwegian LGBT writers {{norway-writer-stub