Publication
After the initial manuscript was completed in 1892] the material was submitted to the National Archival Services of Norway. Interest in the work was so great that in 1896 Parliament appropriated money to publish it. In 1897, the first volume in the series Norske Gaardnavne went to press.
Norske Gaardnavne was released in multiple volumes, with one or more volumes for each county and a separate volume with the preface and introduction, so people could buy individual volumes for areas in which they were interested. When Oluf Rygh died, the introductory volume and the first two county volumes (Smaalenenes Amt and Akershus Amt) had been published. Volumes 3 and 4 were essentially finished. The manuscript for subsequent volumes were edited by Albert Kjær (volume 4, 6, 7, 9, 12 and 19), Hjalmar Falk (volume 5), Amund B. Larsen (volume 8), Magnus Olsen (volume 10 and 11) and Karl Ditlev Rygh (volume 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17). In 1924 Just Knud Qvigstad and Magnus Olsen released an eighteenth, county-specific volume covering Finmarkens County.
Multiple editions of the work have subsequently been printed. With the support of the Arts Council Norway and nine counties, Norske Gaardnavne has been converted to an online digital database, which is available to the public for research.
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