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Iceland Imagined

Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic

by Karen Oslund
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Iceland, Greenland, Northern Norway, and the Faroe Islands lie on the edges of Western Europe, in an area long portrayed by travelers as remote and exotic - its nature harsh, its people reclusive. Since the middle of the eighteenth century, however, this marginalized region has gradually become part...
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by Margaret Armour, Translator
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2013

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS Book I First Adventure Concerning the Niebelungs Second Adventure Concerning Siegfried Third Adventure How Siegfried Came to Worms Fourth Adventure How Siegfried Fought with the Saxons Fifth Adventure How Siegfried First Saw Kriemhild Sixth...
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by Kari Stenman
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012

Finland's premier fighter squadron during World War 2, Lentolaivue 24 (Flying Squadron 24) first saw action during the bloody Winter War of 1939-40, when the Soviet Red Army launched a surprise attack on the small Scandinavian country the squadron enjoyed great success against numerically superior...
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by F. Donald Logan
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

Completely updated to include important primary research, archaeological findings and debates from the last decade, this third edition of F. Donald Logan's successful book examines the Vikings and their critical role in history. The author uses archaeological, literary and historical evidence...
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Seawomen of Iceland

Survival on the Edge

by Margaret Willson
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016

Finalist for the 2017 Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction / History The plaque said this was the winter fishing hut of Thurídur Einarsdóttir, one of Iceland's greatest fishing captains, and that she lived from 1777 to 1863. "Wait," anthropologist and former...
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Changing Pictures

Rock Art Traditions and Visions in the Northernmost Europe

by Joakim Goldhahn, Ingrid Fuglestvedt, Andrew Meirion Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010

This volume derives from a workshop held at the University of Kalmar (now Linnaeus University), Sweden between the 20-24 of October 2008. The aim of this gathering was to provide a forum for rock art researchers from different parts of northern Europe to discuss traditional as well as current interpretative...
Cover of Negotiating Pasts in the Nordic Countries: Interdisciplinary Studies in History and Memory
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

A contribution to the popular international and interdisciplinary field of collective memory within a Scandinavian context, this reference presents a number of case studies-from the Middle Age to the present time-that discuss how people look to the past for identity and meaning. Acknowledging that...
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by Arne Fronsdal
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018

The story will describe the danger of crossing the Skaw from Denmark to Norway, and then proceed through Norway and settle at the Kjeaasen which is popularly known as Kjeaasen, on a plateau, sitting precipitously 550 meters above the fjord, hidden away from the tax collector and the threat from their...
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Danish Reactions to German Occupation

History and Historiography

by Carsten Holbraad
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017

For five years during World War II, Denmark was occupied by Germany. While the Danish reaction to this period of its history has been extensively discussed in Danish-language publications, it has not until now received a thorough treatment in English. Set in the context of modern Danish foreign relations,...
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by Dean Krouk
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2017

Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway illuminates the connections between literature and politics in interwar Europe. Focusing on the works of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun and modernist poets Asmund Sveen and Rolf Jacobsen, all of whom collaborated with the Nazi regime during the...
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Domestic Secrets

Women and Property in Sweden, 1600-1857

by Maria Ågren
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, women's role in the Swedish economy was renegotiated and reconceptualized. Maria Agren chronicles changes in married women's property rights, revealing the story of Swedish women's property as not just a simple narrative of the erosion of legal rights,...
Cover of The Scandinavian Riviera, or Hovland, Minnesota
by Philip J. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012

Largely developed by Norwegians, Swedes, and Swedish-speaking Finns who spread in a short time across eight distinct settlements, the isolated community of Hovland, Minnesota, quickly established a reputation for its natural beauty and the lively activity and hospitality of its people. Excerpted and...
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Oslo & Norwegian Fjords Travel Guide

Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay

by Nicole Wright
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015

Located between the Oslo fjord and the moose-inhabited forests, Norway’s capital and largest city is a melting pot. With glass-covered skyscrapers, trendy bars and royal parks, Oslo is one of the wealthiest European cities.   The Norwegian Fjords are located in West Norway near to the cities...
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I Go to America

Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson

by Joy K. Lintelman
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009

Winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Nonfiction Near the end of her life, Mina Anderson penned a lively memoir that helped Swedish novelist Vilhelm Moberg create "Kristina," the central female character of his beloved emigrant novels, a woman who constantly yearns for her homeland....
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