Ten Inspiring Norwegians

Want to get inspired? Get your faith back in humanity? In podcast number 10 you can hear short sketches of 10 Norwegians whose stories I find inspiring. They are a real mixed bunch – but are all trailblazers! There’s courage, vision and optimism on show here. The five women are Eva Joly (fighter against corruption), Harriet Backer (painter), Katti Anker Møller (activist for women’s rights), Anne-Sofie Østvedt (Resistance leader during the Second World War) and May-Britt Moser (neuroscientist, winner of Nobel Prize). And the five men are Isak Saba (Sámi activist), Jan Egeland (humanitarian official), Vilhelm Bjerknes (weather scientist), Jan Garbarek (groundbreaking musician) and Edvard Moser (neuroscientist, Nobel Prize winner). You can see portraits of each of them below.


EPISODE PHOTO
Katti Anker Møller was an indomitable campaigner for women’s rights in the early 1900s
Photo: Siri Iversen. Free licence.

CONTACT
Twitter: @northbynorway
Email: northbynorway@gmail.com

THANKS
to actor Solveig M. Boyle for her vocal contributions



LINKS & SOURCES
Eva Joly 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2007/12/10/the_comedy_of_power_2007_review.shtml
https://nbl.snl.no/Eva_Joly

Isak Saba
https://www.nb.no/search?mediatype=bøker&title="Fra fornorskningspolitikk mot kulturelt mangfold”

Camilla Bakken Larsen
Oppgjøret som forsvant: Norsk samepolitikk 1945–1963
Master thesis (2012)
Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap
Fakultet for humaniora, samfunnsvitenskap og lærerutdanning Universitetet i Tromsø

Harriet Backer
Bent Harris Evandt
Harriet Backer: Norges største malerinne
Holmestrand kommune (1995) 

Marit Lange
Harriet Backer
Gyldendal (1995)









Jan Egeland 
https://nbl.snl.no/Jan_Egeland http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1975813_1975847_1976579,00.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ylvis

Katti Anker Møller
https://kvinnesak.no/2015/10/kattti-anker-moller-en-kvinne-for-var-tid/

Katti Anker Møller
Moderskapets frigjørelse
Tiden, Oslo (1974)

Vilhelm Bjerknes
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelm_Bjerknes
https://www.uib.no/75år/86878/vilhelm-bjerknes-den-motvillige-meteorologen
https://www.uib.no/aktuelt/36614/mannen-bak-værvarselet

Anne-Sofie Østvedt
Einar Sæter /Svein Sæter
XU – i hemmeleg tenest 1940–1945
Det norskeSamlaget (1995)

Motstandskvinner
Forsvarets historiske filmarkiv

Jan Garbarek
https://www.ecmrecords.com/artists/1435045732/jan-garbarek

https://nbl.snl.no/Jan_Garbarek

May-Britt and Edvard Moser
https://www.nrk.no/trondelag/may-britt-og-edvard-moser-med-ny-oppdagelse_-har-klart-a-bevise-viktig-teori-innen-hjerneforskning-1.15803398



https://partner.sciencenorway.no/biology-brain-nobel-prize-winners/nobel-laureate-may-britt-moserthe-norwegian-stance-on-equality-gave-me-a-unique-opportunity/1756519



https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/nobel-prize-awarded-couples/

https://www.forskningsradet.no/nyheter/2022/-forskere-lider-av-en-galskap-som-heter-lidenskap/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/may-britt-moser_n_6701146


https://www.aftenposten.no/amagasinet/i/0pGE/ekteparet-moser-skiller-lag

PORTRAITS (above)
Eva Joly
Matthieu Riegler, CC-by, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19071806

Isak Saba
Owned by Arbark

Harriet Backer
Photo: Friedrich Müller Photograph Atelier, München

Jan Egeland
DFID – UK Department for International Development

Katti Anker Møller
Photo: Ukjent.
Owner: Nasjonalbiblioteket. Licence CC-BY 2.0

Vilhelm Bjerknes
Photo: Bjerknes Family. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

Anne-Sofie Østvedt
Photo: Unknown. Licence: Commons

Jan Garbarek
Creaive Commons

May-Britt Moser
NTNU Trondheim, CC BY-SA 2.0

Edvard Moser
Foto: Henrik Fjørtoft/NTNU Komm.avd. CC BY-SA 2.0

MUSIC
00:00 North by Norway
written on GarageBand by Andrew J. Boyle, using the Norwegian folksong ‘I Ola-dalom, i Ola-tjønn’

01:00 I Ola-dalom, i Ola-tjønn
Edvard Grieg, op. 66, no. 14

06:30 Cattle Call
Edvard Grieg, Op. 66, version arranged on GarageBand by Andrew J. Boyle