Kjell Arild Pollestad April 24. 2026

Kjell Arild Pollestad

Pollestad translated Heimskringla ( The Norwegian Kings Sagas ) into Norwegian, the book came out in modern Norwegian language in 2012. Pollestad wisited Snorrastofa with a group from Stavanger Norway, Sigrun Guttormsdottir Þormar gave them a guided tour around the building.

Kjell Arild Pollestad, OP is a Norwegian Catholic author, translator, theologian, philologist, and Dominican priest. Pollestad studied Russian language and Lutheran theology at the University of Oslo, graduating as cand. theol. in 1977.

Picture with the kind permission of Pollestad,  by Hjörleifur Valsson.

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