Born 8 May 1977, in Norway.

I have a university education in English, History, Russian and International Relations, and use wikipedia when I should really be doing other things. Also contribute to Norwegian wikipedia (mainly Nynorsk).

I live in Bergen, Norway.

I wrote my MA-dissertation on the dissolution of Yugoslavia, at the University of East Anglia. Later I wrote an MA-thesis on the Hanseatic settlement in Bergen in the Late Middle Ages, at the University of Bergen.

On English wikipedia I have mainly written about Norwegian history, occasionally on Yugoslavia and sometimes this and that.

Articles I have contributed extensively to include:

I award Barend this barnstar for his outstanding work on Norwegian history. Haukur 10:58, 13 July 2006 (UTC)