Icelanders In North America

Author : Jónas Þór
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icelanders in North America written by Jónas Þór and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1870 to 1914 there was continous emigration from Iceland to America. ... This book examines the founding of numerous Icelandic settlements in the US and Canada until 1914"--Page 4.

Author : Jonas Thor
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887550703
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icelanders in North America written by Jonas Thor and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2002-11-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of Icelanders emigrated to both North and South America. Although the best known Icelandic settlements were in southern Manitoba, in the area that became known as ìNew Iceland,î Icelanders also established important settlements in Brazil, Minnesota, Utah, Wisconsin, Washington, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia. Earlier accounts of this immigration have tended to concentrate on the history of New Iceland.Using letters, Icelandic and English periodicals and newspapers, census reports, and archival repositories, Jonas Thor expands this view by looking at Icelandic immigration from a continent-wide perspective. Illustrated with maps and photographs, this book is a detailed social history of the Icelanders in North America, from the first settlement in Utah to the struggle in New Iceland.

Author : Laurie K Bertram
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442663014
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Viking Immigrants written by Laurie K Bertram and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Viking statue, a coffee pot, a ghost story, and a controversial cake: What can the things that immigrants treasured tell us about their history? Between 1870 and 1914 almost one-quarter of Iceland’s population migrated to North America, forming enclaves in both the United States and Canada. This book examines the multi-sensory side of the immigrant past through rare photographs, interviews, artefacts, and early recipes. By revealing the hidden histories behind everyday traditions, The Viking Immigrants maps the transformation of Icelandic North American culture over a century and a half.

Author : Thorstina Walters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Sagas : the story of the Icelanders in North America written by Thorstina Walters and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : L.K. Bertram
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442613661
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Viking Immigrants written by L.K. Bertram and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1870 until 1914, almost one-quarter of the population of Iceland migrated to North America. The Viking Immigrants examines how the distinctive culture that emerged in Icelandic North American communities - from food and fashion to ghost stories and Viking parades - sheds light on a century and a half of change and adaptation. Through an analysis of the history of everyday forms of expression, L.K. Bertram reveals the larger forces that shaped the evolution of an immigrant community. This exploration of the Icelandic North American community draws on rare and fascinating sources of community life, including oral histories, recipes, photographs, and memoirs. By using a multi-sensory approach to the immigrant experience, The Viking Immigrants uses often-overlooked cultural practices such as clothing production, the preservation of recipes, and the telling of ghost stories to understand tension and transformation in an immigrant community.

Author : Thorstina Jackson
Publisher : Fargo : North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Sagas written by Thorstina Jackson and published by Fargo : North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies. This book was released on 1953 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendix: The Icelandic immigrants and Alaska: p.205-29.

Author : Birna Arnbjornsdottir
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887553494
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North American Icelandic written by Birna Arnbjornsdottir and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and North Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that is not spoken in Iceland. But North American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it.North American Icelandic is the only book about the nature and development of this variety of Icelandic. It details the social and linguistic constraints of one specific feature of North American Icelandic phonology undergoing change, namely Flámæli, which is the merger of two sets of front vowels. Although Flámæli was once a part of traditional Icelandic, it was considered too confusing and was systematically eradicated from the language. But in North America, Flámæli use spread unchecked, allowing the rare opportunity of viewing the evolution of a dialect from its birth to its impending demise.

Author : Tim William Machan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526128772
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Iceland to the Americas written by Tim William Machan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’s visit to Vinland in about the year 1000, novels, poetry, history, politics, arts and crafts, comics, films and video games have all come to reflect rising interest in the medieval Norse and their North American presence. Uniquely in reception studies, From Iceland to the Americas approaches this dynamic between Nordic history and its reception by bringing together international authorities on mythology, language, film and cultural studies, as well as on the literature that has dominated critical reception. Collectively, the chapters not only explore the connections among medieval Iceland and the modern Americas, but also probe why medieval contact has become a modern cultural touchstone.

Author : William R. Short
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786447273
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icelanders in the Viking Age written by William R. Short and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sagas of Icelanders are enduring stories from Viking-age Iceland filled with love and romance, battles and feuds, tragedy and comedy. Yet these tales are little read today, even by lovers of literature. The culture and history of the people depicted in the Sagas are often unfamiliar to the modern reader, though the audience for whom the tales were intended would have had an intimate understanding of the material. This text introduces the modern reader to the daily lives and material culture of the Vikings. Topics covered include religion, housing, social customs, the settlement of disputes, and the early history of Iceland. Issues of dispute among scholars, such as the nature of settlement and the division of land, are addressed in the text.

Author : Elva Simundsson
Publisher : Queenston House Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780919866553
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Icelandic Settlers in America written by Elva Simundsson and published by Queenston House Pub.. This book was released on 1981 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the migration of Icelanders from their island home to North America and the settlements they established in Manitoba.