This selection of 175 Icelandic-Canadian oral narratives contains folktales, legends, humorous anecdotes, tall tales, and simple accounts of daily events. The first 51 narratives are grounded in old-country experiences and the remainder reflect immigrant life in Canada.

This selection of one hundred and seventy five Icelandic-Canadian oral narratives contains folktales, legends, memorates, humorous anecdotes, tall tales, and simple accounts of daily events. The first fifty one narratives are grounded in the Old Country experience with the remainder reflecting Icelandic immigrant life in Canada.

Icelandic-Canadian Memory Lore

This selection of one hundred and seventy five Icelandic-Canadian oral narratives contains folktales, legends, memorates, humorous anecdotes, tall tales, and simple accounts of daily events. The first fifty one narratives are grounded in the Old Country experience with the remainder reflecting Icelandic immigrant life in Canada.

A Viking statue, a coffee pot, a ghost story, and a controversial cake: What can the things that immigrants treasured tell us about their history? Between 1870 and 1914 almost one-quarter of Iceland’s population migrated to North America, forming enclaves in both the United States and Canada. This book examines the multi-sensory side of the immigrant past through rare photographs, interviews, artefacts, and early recipes. By revealing the hidden histories behind everyday traditions, The Viking Immigrants maps the transformation of Icelandic North American culture over a century and a half.

This fascinating study explores a remarkable ethnic-Canadian literature in close textual and contextual terms for the first time. It lays a groundwork for future comparative research in the field of ethnic Canadian studies, and challenges assumptions about cultural identity and human experience of the "new."

This third book in a series on Icelandic-Canadian folk literature features some 274 verses and poems (originals and translations) that reflect Icelandic immigrant life on the Prairies. They express love, philosophy of life, censure, or simply delight in the joys of daily living and are a uniquely revealing source of information about the emotional and intellectual life of Icelandic immigrants in Canada.