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Line Esborg

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Phone +47 22 85 49 19
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Visiting address IKOS P. A. Munchs hus 4. et. Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 0371 OSLO
Postal address Postboks 1010 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Teaching and supervision

All levels (BA, MA, PhD) Cultural history, Folkloristics, Museology and Cultural Heritage Studies 

Research fields

Memory institutions, heritage and identity politics; Folklore, Tradition Archives; Narrative, tradition and ritual; Digital folklore and popular memory; History of knowledge, Cultural History of Medicine; 

Ongoing projects

  • The Afterlives of Natural History What is natural history? This project investigates the entanglement of natural and humanist knowledge, historically and today. The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The folklore collector and natural scientist P. Chr. Asbjørnsen is the point of departure for my subproject, exploring how these knowledge practices were intertwined.
  • REA:Life is an interdiciplinary natural and cultural sciences project that retrieves lost medicinal knowledge through historical sources and identifies novel bioactive compounds using the latest methods in pharmacology, immunology and metagenomics. The project is funded by UiO's interdiciplinary initative UiO:Life Science.
  • SAMLA National Infrastructure for Cultural History and Tradition Archives. SAMLA will establish a national infrastructure for Norwegian intangible heritage from three tradition archives. These archives hold records of a diversity of cultural expressions and practises of both majority, minority and indigenous cultures in Norway, in the form of folktales, ballads, beliefs, food and craft traditions, life stories as well as descriptions of children's games.

Academic background

2025 Professor, Cultural history, UiO

2008 Dr.art. (PhD) in Cultural History

1995 MA Folkloristics

Institutional responsabilities / Commissions of trust

2014 -c.d.  Head of Norwegian Folklore Archives

2024-2025 FGA/Head of section Cultural history and museology

2020-2024 Elected member of the Department board at IKOS

2022 - c.d     Appointed member of Faglig Råd, Norges Museumsforbund 

2020 -c.d. Editor-in-chief of the journal Tidsskrift for kulturforskning 

Tags: Cultural history, Folkloristics, Museums and Museology, Digital heritage, Ethnography, Folklore and popular memory, Fairytales and legends, Folklore Archives, Identitypolitics, Nationalism, History of knowledge

Publications

Publications

  • Esborg, Line & Ane Ohrvik 2025. Scientific societies and the formation of knowledge in the nineteenth century: the case of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and his honorable memberships. In: Good Thoughts on Folklore and Mythology. Festschrift in Honour of Terry Gunnell. Vol. 1. Folklore. Edited by Ingunn Ásdísardóttir, Felix Lummer, Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir, Katrin Lisa van der Linde Mikaelsdóttir, Júlíana Þóra Magnúsdóttir. Trivient Publishing 2025. Pp 29-46

  • Esborg, Line (2022). Treue und Wahrheit: Asbjørnsen and Moe and the Scientification of Folklore in Norway. I Gunnell, Terry (Red.), Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms' Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe. Brill Academic Publishers. ISSN 978-90-04-51160-6. s. 185-221.

  • Esborg, Line (2020). Engaging Disenfranchised Publics through Citizen Humanities projects. In: Hetland, Per et al 2020. A History of Participation in Museum and Archives: Traversing Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities. London: Rouledge.
  • Pierroux, Palmyre; Hetland, Per & Esborg, Line (2020). Traversing Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities: Tacking stitches, In Per Hetland; Palmyre Pierroux & Line Esborg (ed.),  A History of Participation in Museums and Archives. Traversing Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities.  Routledge.  ISBN 9780367186715.  Chapter 1.  s 3 - 23
  • Hetland, Per, Pierroux Palmyre & Esborg Line (2020) (eds.). A History of Participation in Museums and Arhives: Traversing Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities. London: Routledge.
  • Esborg, Line (2019).  Čállosat - Isak Saba álbmotmuitočoakkáldat / Optegnelser - Isak Sabas folkeminnesamling. Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press. NFL series 173
  • Esborg, Line & Thorsen, Katrine Watz (2018). Guest Editorial. New perspectives on Scandinavian Skillingstrykk. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. Vol 74.  ISSN 0066-8176.
  • Esborg, Line (2016) Minnets materialitet. Norske krigsminnesmerker i Normandie. Fortidsminneforeningens Årbok 2016.
  • Esborg, Line, Ida Tolgensbakk og Audun Kjus (2016) Kulturhistoriske arkiv - kunnskapsbanker for fremtiden. Innspill til Humaniorameldingen etter invitasjon fra kunnskapsministeren 12.02.I: Heimen 03-04/2016
  • Kjus, Audun, Kyrre Kverndokk, Line Esborg, Leiv Sem (2016) Metodikkens skål! Moltke Moe som feltforsker. I: Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. vol 15, 2/2016
  • Esborg, Line (2015). Esborg, Line: The Long and Winding Road: The Aesthetics of National History at the Turn of the 21st Century. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore.  ISSN 0066-8176.
  • Esborg, Line & Johannsen, Dirk (2014). Forord: En vild endevending av al virkelighet, I: Line Esborg & Dirk Johannsen (red.),  "en vild endevending av al virkelighet" - Norsk Folkeminnesamling i hundre år.  Novus Forlag.  ISBN 978-82-7099-772-5.  Innledning.  s 9 - 16
  • Esborg, Line (2012). (Re)constructed Cultural Heritage. Acta Borealia.  ISSN 0800-3831.  29(1), s 77- 97 .
  • Esborg, Line (2008) Det norske nei til EU. En studie av motstand som kulturell praksis. (PhD-thesis )Unipub forlag 2008. Acta Humaniora(341) UiO. ISSN 0806-3222     

 

  • Esborg, Line & Ohrvik, Ane (2025). Scientific Societies and the Formation of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and his Honorable Memberships. In Lummer, Felix; Ásdísardóttir, Ingunn; Þorsteinsdóttir, Rósa; Mikaelsdóttir, Katrin Lisa van der Linde & Magnúsdóttir, Júlíana Þóra (Ed.), Good Thoughts on Folklore and Mythology. Festschrift in Honour of Terry Gunnell. Trivent Publishing. ISSN 9786156696786. p. 29–46. doi: https:/trivent-publishing.eu/home/212-399-festschrift-terry-gunnell-vol-1.html#%2F27-cover-paperback. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stamatis, Kristina; Clarke, Sherice; Polman, Joseph; Gates, Zaynab; Lee, Ung-Sang & Van, Marcus [Show all 14 contributors for this article] (2023). Designing to Disrupt While Encountering Disruption: Engaging With the Unexpected in Educational Research and Practice. Proceedings (International Conference of the Learning Sciences). ISSN 1814-9316. doi: 10.22318/icls2023.101049. Full text in Research Archive
  • Foldvik, Therese; Gløtberget, Mari Ringnes & Esborg, Line (2023). Mapping Female Folklore Collectors in the Norwegian Folklore Archives. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. ISSN 0066-8176. Full text in Research Archive
  • Heien, Greta Karoline & Esborg, Line (2022). “[E]ndnu lever en stor medicinsk erfaringskundskap”. Early Twentieth-Century Knowledge Production on Folk Medicine. Ethnologia Scandinavica. A Journal for Nordic Ethnology. ISSN 0348-9698. 52, p. 43–61. Full text in Research Archive
  • Oswald, Emily Christine; Esborg, Line & Pierroux, Palmyre (2022). Memes, youth and memory institutions. Information, Communication & Society. ISSN 1369-118X. 26(15), p. 2999–3016. doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2131363. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2022). Treue und Wahrheit: Asbjørnsen and Moe and the Scientification of Folklore in Norway. In Gunnell, Terry (Eds.), Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms' Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004511606. p. 185–221. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2020). Engaging disenfranchised publics through citizen humanities projects. In Hetland, Per; Pierroux, Palmyre & Esborg, Line (Ed.), A History of Participation in Museums and Archives. Traversing Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities. Routledge. ISSN 9780367186715. p. 109–125. Full text in Research Archive
  • Pierroux, Palmyre; Hetland, Per & Esborg, Line (2020). Traversing Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities: Tacking stitches. In Hetland, Per; Pierroux, Palmyre & Esborg, Line (Ed.), A History of Participation in Museums and Archives. Traversing Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities. Routledge. ISSN 9780367186715. p. 3–23. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line & Thorsen, Katrine Watz (2018). Editorial. New perspectives on Scandinavian Skillingstrykk. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. ISSN 0066-8176. 74, p. 7–16. Full text in Research Archive
  • Kjus, Audun; Kverndokk, Kyrre; Esborg, Line & Sem, Leiv (2016). Metodikkens skål! Moltke Moe som feltforsker. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. ISSN 1502-7473. 15(2), p. 83–102. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line; Tolgensbakk, Ida & Kjus, Audun (2016). Kulturhistoriske arkiv - kunnskapsbanker for fremtiden. Innspill til Humaniorameldingen etter invitasjon fra kunnskapsministeren 12.02. Heimen - Lokal og regional historie. ISSN 0017-9841. 3(4), p. 337–343. doi: 10.18261/issn.1894-3195-2016-03-04-08. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2016). Minnets materialitet - Norske Krigsminnesmerker i Normandie. Årbok - Foreningen til norske fortidsminnesmerkers bevaring. ISSN 0071-7436. p. 49–64. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2015). Esborg, Line: The Long and Winding Road: The Aesthetics of National History at the Turn of the 21st Century. Arv. Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. ISSN 0066-8176. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2012). (Re)constructed Cultural Heritage. Acta Borealia. ISSN 0800-3831. 29(1), p. 77–97. doi: 10.1080/08003831.2012.678722. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2011). "I giorde galt at I sagde I haffde seet det, I schulle sagt at I drømpt det". Rettssaken mot Kields Aase 1662. In Esborg, Line; Kverndokk, Kyrre & Sem, Leiv (Ed.), Or gamalt - nye perspektiver på folkeminner. Norsk Folkeminnelag. ISSN 9788203351853. p. 142–162. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line; Kverndokk, Kyrre & Sem, Leiv (2011). Kapittel 1: Innleiing. In Esborg, Line; Kverndokk, Kyrre & Sem, Leiv (Ed.), Or gamalt - nye perspektiver på folkeminner. Norsk Folkeminnelag. ISSN 9788203351853. p. 7–11. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2010). Norske EU-motstandshistorier. In Hemmersam, Flemming; Jespersen, Astrid & Otto, Lene (Ed.), Kulturelle processer i Europa. Museum Tusculanums Forlag. ISSN 9788763505055. p. 213–223. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2005). Feltarbeidets mange samtaleformer. In Gustavsson, Anders (Eds.), Kulturvitenskap i felt. Metodiske og pedagogiske erfaringer. Cappelen Damm Høyskoleforlaget. ISSN 9788276346589. p. 91–107. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2002). Mellom bakkar og berg. Om den norske EU-motstandens retoriske sted. In Eriksen, Anne; Garnert, Jan & Selberg, Torunn (Ed.), Historien in på livet. Diskussioner om kulturarv och minnespolitik. Nordic Academic Press, Lund, Sverige. ISSN 9789189116344. p. 239–258. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line & Utheim, Marit Eide (2002). Sagnomsust. Om å fortelle seg inn i den nye tid, Sagnomsust. Fortelling og virkelighet. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270993550. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (1999). Om kultur, politikk og EU-kamp. Dugnad. Tidsskrift for etnologi. ISSN 0332-5784. 25(3), p. 5–19. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (1996). Forestilt fellesskap? Synspunkter på nyere nasjonalismeforskning. Norveg : tidsskrift for folkloristikk. ISSN 0029-3601. p. 12–23. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Hetland, Per; Pierroux, Palmyre & Esborg, Line (2020). A History of Participation in Museums and Archives. Traversing Citizen Science and Citizen Humanities. Routledge. ISBN 9780367186715. 302 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2019). Isak Sabas folkeminnesamling. Cállosat Isak Saba Álbmotmuitočoakkaldát. Scandinavian Academic Press. ISBN 9788230402207. 300 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line & Johannsen, Dirk (2014). "En vild endevending av al virkelighet" - Norsk Folkeminnesamling i hundre år. Novus Forlag. ISBN 9788270997725. 352 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line; Kverndokk, Kyrre & Sem, Leiv (2011). Or gamalt - nye perspektiver på folkeminner. Norsk Folkeminnelag. ISBN 9788203351853. 193 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (1995). Krigshverdag. Oslo-kvinner forteller. Norsk Folkemuseum. ISBN 9788290036589. 102 p. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Esborg, Line (2026). Eventyrenes relevans i dag. doi: https:/buskerudmuseene.no/ringerikes-museum/eventyrenes-relevans-i-dag. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2026). Folklore as Naturculture: Reading Asbjørnsen with Haraway. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2026). En vandring i skogen. doi: https:/www.ntnu.no/hf/museale. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line; Hamran, Olav; Kaijser, Lars & Brenna, Brita (2025). Nature Engagements, Museums and Heritagization. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2025). Moltke Moe i Bø. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2025). Digital trolldom. Arkivet over norske trolldomsprosesser - muligheter og begrensinger. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ekman, Mattias; Sauge, Birgitte; Esborg, Line; Brenna, Brita; Ahrens, Sven & Dalbu, Jeanne [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2025). Karriereutvikling i museene. Full text in Research Archive
  • Reinsone, Sanita; Esborg, Line; Gunnell, Terry; Kallio, Kati; Kverndokk, Kyrre & Laime, Sandis [Show all 14 contributors for this article] (2025). From Folklore Collections to Digital Research Infrastructures: Expanding Access, Engagement, and Analysis. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line & Jordheim, Helge (2024). Naturhistoriens etterliv. Full text in Research Archive
  • Oswald, Emily; Esborg, Line & Pierroux, Palmyre (2023). Memes in memory institutions: Youth interests and literacies as encountered disruption in design-based cultural heritage work. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line & Foldvik, Therese (2023). Om SAMLA. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2022). Eventyrlig naturhistorie: Peter Christen Asbjørnsen som naturviter. [Radio]. EKKO. Full text in Research Archive
  • Kraft, Nina & Esborg, Line (2022). Into the Woods: Undereventyr uten undring. [Journal]. KulturPlot. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2022). (Re)Making sense of historical fieldwork practices. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2022). Kor kjem eventyra frå? [Radio]. NRK Kompass . Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2018). Citizen Humanities - verdien av frivillige sitt arbeid for å samla inn munnleg kjeldemateriale. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2018). Whats in a meme. Tapping into young peoples feed. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2017). "En helt ny nyhet". Skillingstrykk som 1700 og 1800-tallets sosiale medier. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2017). Skillingstrykk i våre samlinger. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2017). New Voices in the Archive. Collaborating with Youth to Collect New Folklore Material. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2017). Wonders and wanderers. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line & Oswald, Emily (2017). New Voices in the Archive. Collaborating with Youth to Collect New Folklore Material. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2016). Narrative archives and collective memory. Prosjektpresentasjon. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2016). Treue und wahrheit - The Grimm Ripples in Norwegian public discourse. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2016). Hvorfor står juletradisjonene så sterkt? [Radio]. NRK Nitimen. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2016). Fortidens framtid. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2016). Åpne opp de gamle samlingene - Uproblematisk? Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2014). Bilder av Moltke Moes Telemarken. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2014). Gjenstand, handling, fortelling. Norsk Folkeminnesamling som kilde. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2014). "En vil endevending av al virkelighet" NFS etter hundre år. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line & Johannsen, Dirk (2014). Forord: En vild endevending av al virkelighet. In Esborg, Line & Johannsen, Dirk (Ed.), "En vild endevending av al virkelighet" - Norsk Folkeminnesamling i hundre år. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270997725. p. 9–16. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2013). Kulturarv reddet fra flammene. [Internet]. https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/forskning/aktuelt/aktuelle-saker/. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2012). "Laurbær er til for genier og ansjos" Om Peter Christen Asbjørnsens internasjonale ry. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2010). Som man spør får man svar. Om metode. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2010). Sans for historie. Museet som historieformidler. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2009). Om påske som rituale. [TV]. God morgen Norge, TV2. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2009). Om overgangsriter. [Radio]. Østlandsendingen. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2009). Urenluren. Konstruksjoner av norskperiferi og artikulasjon av tilhørighet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2009). Gjenreist kulturarv. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2009). Historie som argument. Norsk EU-motstands erindringspolitiske prosjekt. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2009). Norge - et annerledesland? [Internet]. Ndla.no, samfunnsfag. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2008). Motstandsretorikken formspråk. NTEU 1962-1994.Presentasjon av dravh. Full text in Research Archive
  • Mollø-Christensen, Kristine & Esborg, Line (2008). Lær mer om den norske EU-motstanden. [Journal]. Standpunkt. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2008). EU-kampen for det gode liv, intervju av journalist Sandra Lillebø. [Journal]. Klassekampen. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2008). EU-nei var ja til Noreg, Intervju av journalist Johanne Landsverk. [Internet]. Forskning.no. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2008). Om betydningen av nasjonal identitet. Verdibørsen. [Radio]. NRK P1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2008). Langsomt ble landet vårt eget. Nasjonal estetisering av identitet. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2008). Norsk EU-motstandshistorie. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2008). Argumentasjonens visuelle formspråk. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2007). Hexeformularer og magiske opskrifter. Om svartebokas rolle i eldre folkemedisinsk praksis. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2006). Heksetro og trolldom - Når sola snurFortellinger om det farlige og det løfterike, om folkelig og kirkelig tradisjon. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2006). Sykdomsforståelse og behandling i et kulturhistorisk perspektiv. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2004). Heksen i kulturhistorien. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2002). Historiens betydning for EU-motstanden. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (1999). "Bilder av Norge og Europa". Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (1999). Norsk EU-motstand som historie, erfaring og fortelling. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (1998). EU-kampens nasjonale dimensjon. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (1998). The Concept of Collective Memories. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (1996). Bokanmeldelse. Sæt ikke vantro i min overtroes stæd. Studier i folketro og folkelig religiøsitet. Festskrift til Ørnulf Hodne på 60årsdagen 28.september 1995. Red. Amundsen, Arne Bugge og Anne Eriksen. Norveg : tidsskrift for folkloristikk. ISSN 0029-3601. p. 66–70. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (2008). Det norske nei til EU. En studie av motstand som kulturell praksis. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
  • Esborg, Line (1995). "Og så var vi alle gode nordmenn" Fortellinger om den symbolske motstanden under okkupasjonen av Norge 1940-45. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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