he was the deputy chair of the norwegian broadcasting corporation from 1968 to 1976. he was an active member of the temperance movement (iogt), the nynorsk movement and was a prominent and defender of sami language and culture. in his later years he worked with writing, among others within teachers' history. in 1996 he published his memoirs "minne frå eit langt liv". he died in may 1999 in sarpsborg.