Icelandic Heritage in North America

Foreword by Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and Eliza Reid, President and First Lady of Iceland

Introduction

1. Moving a language between continents: Icelandic language communities 1870-1914
2. Icelanders and America: What is it to be Vestur-Íslendingur?
3. Acculturation on their own terms: The social networks of political radicals among Icelandic immigrants in Canada in the early twentieth century
4. The Barnason brothers in Nebraska: Two pioneer farmers
5. Ralph E. Halldorson and the Great War
6. Icelandic immigrants, modernity, and Winnipeg in Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran’s “Hopes”
7. Another emigrant ship crossing the Atlantic: The poetics of migration in the poetry of Undína and Stephan G. Stephansson
8. The young Icelander grows up: Nationalism and ethnic identity in Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason’s life and work
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
10. Raven tracks across the Prairies: Icelandic immigration and manuscript culture in the Canadian West
11. World meanings in North American Icelandic: More North American or more Icelandic?
12. Understanding complex sentences in a heritage language
13. "And the dog is sleeping too": The use of the progressive in North American Icelandic
14. Language and Identity: The case of North American Icelandic
15. The Heritage Language Project: Impact and implications