Icelandic Heritage in North America

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