Heilskapens detaljar i Ivar Aasen-tunet

John Aage Gjestrum and the Ivar Aasen Centre – the whole and the details The last project John Aage Gjestrum was able to conclude in Norway was ’Ivar Aasen-Tunet’, The Ivar Aasen Centre for Norwegian Language and Literature, which was established on the site where Ivar Aasen was born. The institution is specifically dedicated to the documentation, development and promotion of ’Nynorsk’, New Norwegian, which was the result of the lifelong work of the linguist Ivar Aasen (1813–1896). He devoted himself to the study, collection and publication of Norwegian dialects with a view to liberating the Norwegian language from the strong Danish influence apparent in the official ’bokmål’, Dano-Norwegian. Ivar Aasen thus became a key figure in the movement which, since 1885, succeeded in getting the two Norwegian idioms officially accepted.