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Norwegian educator and poet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tore Ørjasæter (3 March 1886 – 29 February 1968) was a Norwegian educator and poet.[1]
Ørjasæter was born at Skjåk in Oppland, Norway. The son of a teacher, he attended Voss folk high school and qualified as a teacher before becoming a writer.[2]
Ørjasæter's poetry was written in Nynorsk in the Norwegian folk tradition. His writing is influenced by Ivar Aasen, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje and Per Sivle. Like these, he was concerned with modernization of traditional society, and the conflict between individual and community, but he differed from these poets in a more positive attitude to the new society. Towards the end of his life, he also started experimenting with more modernist writing. His main work is considered to be the poem Gudbrand Langleite.[3][4]
Ørjasæter was married in 1921 to Aaslaug Skaaden (1896–1988). He then became the father of literary critic Jo Ørjasæter (1925- 2006) and the father-in-law of professor Tordis Ørjasæter.[5]
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