''Syn og Segn'' is a Norwegian quarterly cultural and political periodical published in

Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...

, Norway.

History and profile

''Syn og Segn'' was founded in 1894, and

Rasmus Flo Rasmus Flo (29 September 1851 – 30 November 1905i) was a Norwegian teacher, philologist, magazine editor, and translator. He was a noted proponent of the use of the Nynorsk language. Biography Rasmus Flo was born in Stryn near the nort ...

and

Arne Garborg Arne Garborg (born Aadne Eivindsson Garborg) (25 January 1851 – 14 January 1924) was a Norwegian writer. Garborg championed the use of Landsmål (now known as Nynorsk, or New Norwegian), as a literary language; he translated the Odyssey into i ...

were the first editors.Syn og Segn
Store Norske Leksikon, Retrieved 7 January 2013 The magazine is published in

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quarterly by

Det Norske Samlaget Det Norske Samlaget is a Norwegian publishing house founded on 24 March 1868 with the aim to promote and publish books in Landsmål, now known as Nynorsk. ''Det Norske Samlaget'' is now divided into two institutions: a literature organization, '' ...

, and has been important for the development of the Nynorsk as a cultural language. Olav Midttun was the

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for over fifty years, from 1908 to 1960.

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-based Knut Aastad Bråten was editor from 2014 to 2020, succeeding Bente Riise who had served in the post since 2006.

Astrid Sverresdotter Dypvik Astrid Sverresdotter Dypvik (born October 19, 1977) is a Norwegian journalist and historian, and was the head of ''Norsk Målungdom'', the youth branch of the Language Organisation of Norway, from 2000 to 2002. Dypvik was born in Lensvik in Ag ...

has edited the magazine since 2020. The number of subscribers was largest in the 1960s when it reached about 13,000. In 2004 the number of subscribers was about 2,500. The circulation in 2004 was about 3,100. In 2010 the magazine was named "Periodical of the Year" in Norway by the Norwegian Association of Journals.Nynorsk-feiring med champagne
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'', 3 June 2013

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External links

Official website
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History and profile

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