Scandinavian_diaspora

Nordic diaspora

The Nordic diaspora may refer to:

Old diaspora

Viking and Old Norse

"Scandinavian diaspora" during this era refers to explorations, conquests, emigrations, and pioneering settlements during the Viking expansion.[1] Scrutinising the Viking Age through the lens of settlement offers a distinct perspective, highlighting their cultural profile distinct from their predatory reputation.[2]

Modern diaspora

The term "Nordic diaspora" is also used to describe more recent emigrations and emigrants originating in one or more of the Nordic countries.[3][4][5]

Swedish diaspora

Swedish diaspora communities include:

Finnish diaspora

People emigrated to the United States, Canada, Ghana, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Brazil and Argentina.[6][7] They have also started Utopian communities in places including Australia, Brazil, Paraguay, France, Cuba, and Sierra Leone.

Finnish diaspora communities include:

Danish diaspora

Danish diaspora communities include:

Icelandic diaspora

Icelandic diaspora communities include:

Norwegian diaspora

Norwegian diaspora communities include:

The first modern Norwegian settlement in the United States was Norwegian Ridge, in what is now Spring Grove, Minnesota.[8]

See also


References

  1. Heather, Peter (4 March 2010). Empires and barbarians: the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe. Oxford University Press US. p. 497. ISBN 978-0-19-973560-0. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
  2. Abrams, Lesley (19 January 2012). "Diaspora and Identity in the Viking Age". Early Medieval Europe. 20 (1): 17–38.
  3. Hammill, Faye. "Martha Ostenso, Literary History, and the Scandinavian Diaspora". #196 (Spring 2008) Diasporic Women's Writing. Canadian Literature. Archived from the original on 7 December 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2011. ...the Scandinavian diaspora disrupts nationalist literary histories by crossing political and cultural boundaries between America and Canada.
  4. Campbell, James T. (31 August 2009). Race, Nation, and Empire in American History. ReadHowYouWant.com. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-8078-5828-8. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2020. My story begins with a fragment in the history of the Scandinavian diaspora. About 1886, a young woman named Marie Hansen left Denmark, displaced by the after-effects of the Dano-Prussian War, and settled in Chicago.
  5. Lien, Marianne E; Marit Melhuus. Holding worlds together: ethnographies of knowing and belonging. Berghahn Books. p. 13. ISBN 1-84545-250-X. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2020. Lund's Scandinavian diaspora informants from the USA (Chapter 4) re-embed themselves through recounting their genealogies.
  6. Karni, Michael G. (1981). Finnish Diaspora: United States. Multicultural History Society of Ontario.
  7. Karni, Michael G. (1981). Finnish Diaspora: Canada, South America, Africa, Australia and Sweden. Multicultural History Society of Ontario.
  8. Chad Muller (2002). Spring Grove: Minnesota's first Norwegian settlement. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-1949-9. Spring Grove: Minnesota's First Norwegian Settlement is a tribute to the state's earliest Norwegian emigrants, and to generations of Norwegian Americans who have made this small farming community amongst deep valleys, fjord-like bluffs, and ...

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