The 31-year-old has previously hinted that he may opt to move back to former club Viking.
“He was a player I got to know at Viking,” Hodgson told Sporting Life. “He has been a Man Utd youth player. I think he spent some years there but never broke into the first team.
“He had been at Viking for a few years by the time I got back there, in fact he was in the last year of his contract.
“The club was very close to relegation when I got there, we were in the bottom two.
“He did a fantastic job but we could not hang onto him, but I always remembered the job he did for us in those six months.
“So when I came to Fulham and was desperate to get out of the situation we were in, I always remembered Erik and what had he had done and we were lucky to sign him from Groningen.
“But Andrew Johnson’s arrival has pushed him back because they are similar players.
“Erik is not that tall and height and strength in this league is becoming reasonably important.
“If you don’t have your fair share of six-footers in the team you suffer from set-plays. I was pleased with him today, he made the chance and took it himself. He has been an outstanding professional since he’s been here.
“Viking are desperate to get him back and I’d like to keep him of course.
“That is something we will have to discuss in the coming weeks. I would be interested to hear how he sees things because he has done such a good job for us and I certainly would not want to force a decision on him that he was not happy with.
“But if he was happy to stay with us we’d be very happy to keep him.”
