Else Olaug Mundal (born 8 November 1944) is a Norwegian philologist.
She was born in Vanylven and graduated with the cand.philol. degree in 1971. She was appointed as a docent in Norse philology at the University of Oslo in 1977. Being promoted to professor in 1985, she was a professor at the University of Bergen from 1994.[1] She is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[2] In 2017 she was appointed a knight of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon in connection with the state visit of Iceland's president to Norway.[3]