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9780887556999: My Parents: Memoirs of New World Icelanders
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ISBN 10: 088755699X ISBN 13: 9780887556999
Editorial: University of Manitoba Press, 2007

Sinopsis

My Parents: Memoirs of New World Icelanders is a collection of essays written by second-generation Icelandic immigrants in North America, describing the lives of their parents. Originally collected in 1956 by Dr. Finnbogi Gumundsson, the first Chair of Icelandic at the University of Manitoba, seven of the fourteen memoirs are translated here from Icelandic to English. They offer a rare first-hand look into the lives of New World immigrants of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Readers are invited straight into the heart of these people's lives, from social evenings spent reading poetry and the sagas, to the daily struggles to prepare the land and build homes. A prevailing sense of community emerges from the writers' stories, showing how Icelandic culture and tradition sustained the immigrants through hardship, illness, and isolation.

My Parents also details some of the genealogy of the New World Icelanders who settled in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Minnesota.

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Acerca del autor

Birna Bjarnarttir is the acting head and chair of the department of Icelandic Language and Literature, University of Manitoba, Canada.

Finnbogi Gumundsson is the former head of the Icelandic National Library in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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Editorial
University of Manitoba Press
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
088755699X
ISBN 13 
9780887556999
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
144
Editor
Bjarnadottir Birna, Gudmundsson Finnbogi
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