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
