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==Legacy== Quisling's wife Maria lived in Oslo until her death in 1980.<ref>{{harvnb|Yourieff|2007|p=457}}.</ref> They had no children. Upon her death, she donated all their Russian antiques to a charitable fund that still operated in Oslo as of August 2017.<ref>{{harvnb|Dahl|1999|pp=129, 418}}.</ref> For most of his later political career, Quisling lived in a mansion on [[Bygdøy]] in Oslo that he called "[[Villa Grande|Gimle]]," after the place in [[Norse mythology]] where survivors of the great battle of [[Ragnarök]] were to live.<ref>{{harvnb|Bratteli|Myhre|1992|pp=50–51}}.</ref> The house, later renamed Villa Grande, in time became a [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] museum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-112640182.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025140736/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-112640182.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 October 2012|title=Norway turns traitor Quisling's home into symbol of tolerance|publisher=Highbeam Research (archived from [[Associated Press]])|date=30 August 2005|access-date=28 April 2011}}</ref> The ''Nasjonal Samling'' movement was wiped out as a political force in Norway and Quisling has become one of the most written-about Norwegians of all time.<ref>{{harvnb|Dahl|1999|p=417}}.</ref> [[Quisling|The word ''quisling'']] became a synonym for ''[[traitor]]''.<ref>{{harvnb|Yourieff|2007|p=xi}}.</ref> The term was coined by the British newspaper ''[[The Times]]'' in its lead of 15 April 1940, titled "Quislings everywhere."<ref>{{cite news|title=Quislers|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,794977,00.html|work=Time Magazine|page=1|date=29 April 1940|access-date=28 April 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020194451/https://time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,794977,00.html|archive-date=20 October 2011}}</ref> The noun survived, and for a while during and after World War II, the [[back-formation|back-formed]] verb ''to quisle'' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|w|ɪ|z|əl}} was used. One who was ''quisling'' was in the act of committing treason.<ref>{{harvnb|Block (ed.)|1940|p=669}}.</ref>
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