North American Icelandic

Author : Laurie K Bertram
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442663015

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The Viking Immigrants by Laurie K Bertram Pdf

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 : Birna Arnbjornsdottir
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780887553493

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North American Icelandic by Birna Arnbjornsdottir Pdf

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 : Jónas Þór
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056318861

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Icelanders in North America by Jónas Þór Pdf

"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 : Watson 1895-1977 Kirkconnell
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013502760

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The North American Book of Icelandic Verse by Watson 1895-1977 Kirkconnell Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : L.K. Bertram
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442613669

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The Viking Immigrants by L.K. Bertram Pdf

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 : Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir,Höskuldur Thráinsson,Úlfar Bragason
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781772840223

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Icelandic Heritage in North America by Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir,Höskuldur Thráinsson,Úlfar Bragason Pdf

A celebration of cultural inheritance and the evolution of language. Mapping the language, literature, and history of Icelandic immigrants and their descendants, this collection, translated and expanded for English-speaking audiences, delivers a comprehensive overview of Icelandic linguistic and cultural heritage in North America. Drawn from the findings of a three-year study involving over two hundred participants from Manitoba, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, and the Pacific West Coast, Icelandic Heritage in North America reveals the durability and versatility of the Icelandic language. Editors Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Höskuldur Thráinsson, and Úlfar Bragason bring together a range of interdisciplinary scholarship to investigate the endurance of the “Western Icelander.” Chapters delve into the literary works of Icelandic immigrant writers and interpret archival letters, newspapers, and journal entries to provide both qualitative and quantitative linguistic analyses and to mark significant cultural shifts between early settlement and today. Icelandic Heritage in North America offers an in-depth examination of Icelandic immigrant identity, linguistic evolution, and legacy.

Author : Jonas Thor
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887550706

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Icelanders in North America by Jonas Thor Pdf

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 : Janne Bondi Johannessen,Joseph C. Salmons
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268198

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Germanic Heritage Languages in North America by Janne Bondi Johannessen,Joseph C. Salmons Pdf

This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift. The volume focuses on three critical issues underlying the notion of ‘heritage language’: acquisition, attrition and change. The book offers theoretically-informed discussions of heritage language processes across phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics and the lexicon, in addition to work on sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and contact settings. With this, the volume also includes a variety of frameworks and approaches, synchronic and diachronic. Most European Germanic languages share some central linguistic features, such as V2, gender and agreement in the nominal system, and verb inflection. As minority languages faced with a majority language like English, similarities and differences emerge in patterns of variation and change in these heritage languages. These empirical findings shed new light on mechanisms and processes.

Author : Daisy L. Neijmann
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803233461

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A History of Icelandic Literature by Daisy L. Neijmann Pdf

As complete a history as possible of the literature of Iceland.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-16T22:59:00Z
Category : History
ISBN : 9798822543652

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Summary of Egill Bjarnason's How Iceland Changed the World by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Vikings had discovered Greenland in the search for more land, and turned its stock of walrus and narwhals into a global enterprise. They had then launched even farther west, and discovered sailing routes from Europe to North America five hundred years before Columbus. #2 The story of Iceland begins with exile. Like many people, I used to romanticize stormy ocean crossings. But during my own sea crossing, I found storms considerably less romantic. #3 The first settlers in Iceland, Greenland, and North America were blown off course. They invented sailing centuries before the art of navigation was anything more than an educated guess. #4 The first settlers to Iceland were Norwegian farmers Ingólfur Arnarson and his family in AD 874. The country was visited by three explorers who had come to Iceland mostly out of curiosity and the desire to verify one another’s boasts about finding a vast empty island.

Author : Tim William Machan,Jón Karl Helgason
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781526128775

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From Iceland to the Americas by Tim William Machan,Jón Karl Helgason Pdf

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 : Watson Kirkconnell
Publisher : New York ; Montreal : L. Carrier & A. Isles, Incorporated
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015004070853

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The North American Book of Icelandic Verse by Watson Kirkconnell Pdf

Author : Gunnar Karlsson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0816635897

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The History of Iceland by Gunnar Karlsson Pdf

Iceland is unique among European societies in having been founded as late as the Viking Age and in having copious written and archaeological sources about its origin. Gunnar Karlsson, that country's premier historian, chronicles the age of the Sagas, consulting them to describe an era without a monarch or central authority. Equating this prosperous time with the golden age of antiquity in world history, Karlsson then marks a correspondence between the Dark Ages of Europe and Iceland's "dreary period", which started with the loss of political independence in the late thirteenth century and culminated with an epoch of poverty and humility, especially during the early Modern Age. Iceland's renaissance came about with the successful struggle for independence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and with the industrial and technical modernization of the first half of the twentieth century. Karlsson describes the rise of nationalism as Iceland's mostly poor peasants set about breaking with Denmark, and he shows how Iceland in the twentieth century slowly caught up economically with its European neighbors.

Author : Kirsten Wolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042161326

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An Annotated Bibliography of North American Doctoral Dissertations on Old Norse-Icelandic by Kirsten Wolf Pdf

Kirsten Wolf's annotated bibliographical survey of doctoral dissertations written at North American institutions of higher learning, and treating topics pertaining to Old Norse-Icelandic language, literature, and culture, provides a new tool for basic research. It also offers insight into trends and tendencies in scholarship within the field of Old Norse-Icelandic in the United States and Canada from the last decades of the nineteenth century, when the first doctoral dissertations in the field appeared, to late 1995. Specifically, it demonstrates a gradual shift from studies in language and style, firmly rooted in Germanic philology, to anthropological studies and literary analyses of individual works or themes. Author, director, and institution indices appear at the end of the volume. To facilitate research, Wolf provides a subject index that includes not only titles of works and proper names but also concepts.

Author : Samuel Kneeland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Iceland
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024147886

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An American in Iceland by Samuel Kneeland Pdf