"From 1870 to 1914 there was continous emigration from Iceland to America. ... This book examines the founding of numerous Icelandic settlements in the US and C

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

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, thousands of Icelanders emigrated to both North and South America. Although the best known Icelandic settlements

This volume investigates the reception of a small historical fact with wide-ranging social, cultural and imaginative consequences. Inspired by Leif Eiriksson’

Appendix: The Icelandic immigrants and Alaska: p.205-29.