03393nam 22005293 450 991104658980332120230328080756.09781772840230(electronic bk.)10.1515/9781772840230(MiAaPQ)EBC30455044(Au-PeEL)EBL30455044(OCoLC)1374425474(DE-B1597)664696(DE-B1597)9781772840230(Perlego)3876301(CKB)26323220500041(EXLCZ)992632322050004120230328d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIcelandic Heritage in North America1st ed.Winnipeg :University of Manitoba Press,2023.©2023.1 online resource (327 pages)Print version: Arnbjörnsdóttir, Birna Icelandic Heritage in North America Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press,c2023 Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Moving a Language between Continents: Icelandic Language Communities 1870-1914 -- Chapter 2. Icelanders and America: What is it to be Vestur-Íslendingur? -- Chapter 3. Acculturation on Their Own Terms: The Social Networks of Political Radicals among Icelandic Immigrants in Canada in the Early Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4. The Barnason Brothers in Nebraska: Two Pioneer Farmers -- Chapter 5. Ralph E. Halldorson and the Great War -- Chapter 6. Icelandic Immigrants, Modernity, and Winnipeg in Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran's "Hopes" -- Chapter 7. Another Emigrant Ship Crossing the Atlantic: The Poetics of Migration in the Poetry of Undína and Stephan G. Stephansson -- Chapter 8. The Young Icelander Grows Up: Nationalism and Ethnic Identity in Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason's Life and Work -- 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 -- Chapter 10. Raven Tracks across the Prairies: Icelandic Immigration and Manuscript Culture in the Canadian West -- Chapter 11. Word Meanings in North American Icelandic: More North American or More Icelandic? -- Chapter 12. Understanding Complex Sentences in a Heritage Language -- Chapter 13. "And the Dog Is Sleeping Too": The Use of the Progressive in North American Icelandic -- Chapter 14. Language and Identity: The Case of North American Icelandic -- Chapter 15. The Heritage Language Project: Impact and Implications -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors.Icelandic Heritage in North America offers an in-depth examination of Icelandic immigrant identity, linguistic evolution, and legacy.FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Scandinavian Languages (Other)bisacshIcelandic heritage.Icelandic immigrants in North America.Icelandic language.heritage language.FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Scandinavian Languages (Other).971Arnbjörnsdóttir Birna1866995Thráinsson Höskuldur435057Úlfar Bragason1866996MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9911046589803321Icelandic Heritage in North America4474426UNINA