Icelandic Heritage in North America
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Icelandic Heritage in North America

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Icelandic Heritage in North America

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1. Moving a Language between Continents: Icelandic Language Communities 1870–1914
  6. Chapter 2. Icelanders and America: What is it to be Vestur-Íslendingur?
  7. Chapter 3. Acculturation on Their Own Terms: The Social Networks of Political Radicals among Icelandic Immigrants in Canada in the Early Twentieth Century
  8. Chapter 4. The Barnason Brothers in Nebraska: Two Pioneer Farmers
  9. Chapter 5. Ralph E. Halldorson and the Great War
  10. Chapter 6. Icelandic Immigrants, Modernity, and Winnipeg in Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran’s “Hopes”
  11. Chapter 7. Another Emigrant Ship Crossing the Atlantic: The Poetics of Migration in the Poetry of Undína and Stephan G. Stephansson
  12. Chapter 8. The Young Icelander Grows Up: Nationalism and Ethnic Identity in Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason’s Life and Work
  13. Chapter 9. Icelandic-Canadian Oral Lore: New Life in a New Land and How the Women’s Tales May Shed Light on the Classification of the Edda Poems
  14. Chapter 10. Raven Tracks across the Prairies: Icelandic Immigration and Manuscript Culture in the Canadian West
  15. Chapter 11. Word Meanings in North American Icelandic: More North American or More Icelandic?
  16. Chapter 12. Understanding Complex Sentences in a Heritage Language
  17. Chapter 13. “And the Dog Is Sleeping Too”: The Use of the Progressive in North American Icelandic
  18. Chapter 14. Language and Identity: The Case of North American Icelandic
  19. Chapter 15. The Heritage Language Project: Impact and Implications
  20. Acknowledgements
  21. Contributors