Lilli Gjerløw (19 June 1910 – 4 December 1998) was a Norwegian archivist and liturgical historian. She was employed at the

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for 45 years.

Biography

She was born in Nord-Audnedal as a daughter of vicar John Jenssøn Gjerløw (1856–1915) and Agnes Christine Boye. The family (after the father's death) moved to

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when she was young. She was a niece of Mons Klingenberg Gjerløw and Ragnvald Gjerløw and a first cousin of Olaf Gjerløw. From 1946 to 1949 she was married to

Albert Lange Fliflet Albert Lange Fliflet (10 May 1908 – 14 April 2001) was a Norwegian philologist and translator. He is best known for translating ''Kalevala''. He was born in Inderøy Municipality as a son of dean Andreas Vilhelm Agersborg Fliflet (1874–1956) a ...

(1908–2001). She took the

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in 1929 in Arendal and then the preparatory tests at the

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. She studied

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at the

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from 1932 to 1935. In 1937 she did archival studies in Sweden, Finland and Scotland, and in 1938 in the Vatican Archives. She worked at Norsk Historisk Kjeldeskriftinstitutt, a department of the National Archives of Norway from 1935 to 1980. She took the

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degree in 1962 on the thesis ''Adoratio Crucis. The Regularis Concordia and the Decreta Lanfranci'' about the '' Regularis Concordia''. Her specialty was the unveiling of medieval liturgical texts from the countries around the

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. In the series ''Libri liturgici provinciae Nidrosiensis medii aevi'' she published volume two, ''Ordo Nidrosiensis Ecclesiae (Orðubók)'' in 1968, and volume three, ''Antiphonarium Nidrosiensis Ecclesiae'' in 1979. Her two-volume ''Liturgica Islandica'' from 1980 constitutes the volumes 35 and 36 of '' Bibliotheca Arnamagnaeana''. She also studied the history of the Hebrides from 1952 to 1953 with a

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scholarship, and contributed to the encyclopedia ''Kulturhistorisk leksikon for nordisk middelalder''. In 1982, Gjerløw was awarded the

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and in 1984 she was elected to the

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. She died in December 1998 in Oslo.

Selected works

* ''Etude sur la littérature scandinave qui dérive de la Karlamagnússaga'' (1935) * '' Adoratio Crucis. The Regularis Concordia and the Decreta Lanfranci'' (1961) * ''Ordo Nidrosiensis Ecclesiae'' (1968) * ''Antiphonarium Nidrosiensis Ecclesiae '' (1979) * ''Liturgica Islandica'' (1980)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gjerloew, Lilli 1910 births 1998 deaths People from Arendal University of Paris alumni Norwegian expatriates in France Palaeographers Norwegian archivists Women archivists Norwegian women historians Norwegian medievalists Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 20th-century Norwegian translators 20th-century Norwegian historians École Nationale des Chartes alumni Women medievalists 20th-century Norwegian women writers