Helge Ingstad - Early Life

Early Life

Helge Ingstad was born to Olav Ingstad and Olga Marie Qvam in Meråker, Nord-Trøndelag. His father was municipal engineer in Tromsø and held the title of factory supervisor. Helge and his family moved to Bergen in 1915, and after graduating cand. jur. in 1922 he took up a practice of lawyer in Levanger.

Read more about this topic:  Helge Ingstad

Famous quotes containing the words early and/or life:

    Three early risings make an extra day.
    Chinese proverb.

    When it’s over I don’t want to wonder
    if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
    I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,
    or full of argument.
    I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.
    Mary Oliver (b. 1935)