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{"title":"Old Norse in Italy: From Francesco Saverio Quadrio to Fóstbræðra saga","authors":"Fulvio Ferrari","doi":"10.29173/scancan164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan164","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: \u0000 Old Norse texts and literary motifs have been circulating in Italian literature since\u0000 an early period of its history. Already in the second half of the eighteenth century,\u0000 we find evidence of the interest of some Italian intellectual circles in the cultural\u0000 tradition of ancient Scandinavia. The aim of this article is to show how and why Italian\u0000 culture “imported” Old Norse texts during the last two centuries, especially how the mandates of different\u0000 projects determined which texts to translate, how to translate them, and how to present\u0000 them to an Italian readership. In keeping with the theme of this special volume, particular\u0000 attention is paid to the case of Fóstbræðra saga and the context of its appearance in Italian translation, including associated references\u0000 to the twentieth-century rewriting of this saga by the Icelandic writer Halldór Kiljan\u0000 Laxness.\u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":111474,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian-Canadian Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126134663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Cosmopolitan Saint: Nephi Anderson’s Scandinavian-American Mormon Identity","authors":"Sarah C. Reed","doi":"10.29173/scancan150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan150","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: Norwegian immigrant Nephi Anderson (1865-1923) was Mormonism’s first popular\u0000 author and wrote a regional bestseller that stayed in print over 100 years. Despite\u0000 the fact that many of his works have Scandinavian characters and international settings,\u0000 scholars have considered Anderson’s texts primarily for their Mormonism and not in\u0000 terms of his ethnic identity or portrayal of an international church. This parallels\u0000 the scholarly reception of the Mormon Scandinavian immigration to the United States,\u0000 which privileges American over Scandinavian and Mormon above American. In this article,\u0000 I offer a critical reevaluation of Anderson’s works to show their place in Scandinavian-American\u0000 or “immigrant” literature, preserving Norwegian cultural heritage as it intersects Mormonism. \u0000","PeriodicalId":111474,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian-Canadian Studies","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127365694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Introduction: Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in the Nordic Region”","authors":"M. Barkve","doi":"10.29173/scancan148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan148","url":null,"abstract":"Migration to and from the Nordic region is not a new phenomenon. Though migrationhas been a constant throughout the history of theNordic region, today the topic of immigration to the Nordic region, particularly from non-Western nations, dominates popular culture and political discourse, has been perceived of as an economic problem, and has been the subject of art and literature. This special volume of Scandinavian-Canadian Studies, titled “Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in the Nordic Region,” explores various aspects of migration—through place, space, and time—within the Nordic region. As nationality and national identity is fundamentally complicated by the authors within these pages, this special volume similarly expands the boundaries of the definition of the “Nordic region” to include Nordic-America. SarahC. Reed andMirva Johnson look atNordicmigration’s historical impact on Nordic-America. Reed’s article, “The Cosmopolitan Saint: Nephi Anderson’s Scandinavian-American Mormon Identity,” reexamines the scholarly reception of the author Nephi Anderson. Reed highlights the significance of preserving Norwegian cultural heritage in Nephi Anderson’s works as opposed to focusing solely on the author’s Mormon identity, as is most common in Nephi Anderson’s literary reception.Mirva Johnson investigates the Finnish-American community of Oulu, Wisconsin, in her article “Language Shift and Changes in Community Structure: A Case Study of Oulu,Wisconsin.” Johnson uses quantitative data from the 1910 and 1920 Census as well as qualitative evidence from local histories to demonstrate the language shift, from Finnish to bilingual to a gradual increase to English, in the Wisconsin community. Where Reed and Johnson detail historical migration in Nordic America, the remaining articles in this special volume look at these issues through a contemporary lens. Benjamin R. Titlebaum’s article, “Missing Links: Politics and the Misrecognition of the Sweden Democrats,” critiques the dominant academic approach to the study of the Sweden Democrats, a controversial right-wing political party in Sweden. Though prevailing critiques of the Sweden Democrats explore the party’s connections to other Swedish extremist right-wing forces, Titlebaum argues instead for a more nuanced understanding of the dynamic movement. In “The Figure of the ‘Climate Refugee’ in Inger Elisabeth Hansen’s Å","PeriodicalId":111474,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian-Canadian Studies","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126451519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Language Shift and Changes in Community Structure: A Case Study of Oulu, Wisconsin","authors":"Mirva Johnson","doi":"10.29173/scancan151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan151","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: Immigrant communities are particularly prone to language shift, a process\u0000 where people stop speaking one language in favour of another, because speakers of\u0000 minority languages often adopt the majority language over time. This article investigates\u0000 language shift in the context of economic change at the turn of the 20th century in\u0000 the Finnish-American community of Oulu, Wisconsin, and situates its history within\u0000 the broader context of Finnish emigration. Through an analysis of quantitative data\u0000 from the 1910 and 1920 Census in conjunction with qualitative evidence from local\u0000 histories, this article shows how this community maintained their language through\u0000 bilingual practices that helped to shape their identity as they experienced societal\u0000 shifts that contributed to the gradual increase in English usage by the 1950s.\u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":111474,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian-Canadian Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129408639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Ill-Tempered Axe for an Ill-Tempered Smith: The Gift of King Eiríkr blóðøx to Skallagrímr Kveldúlfsson in Egils saga Skallagrímssonar","authors":"W. Sayers","doi":"10.29173/scancan136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan136","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: Current studies on, and translations of, Egils saga Skallagrímssonar approach weapons, in particular their metallurgical composition and forged details,\u0000 with little reflection of recent advances in archaeology, both classic and experimental.\u0000 This results in an impoverished appreciation of both the detail of the episode in\u0000 which Skallagrímr Kveldúlfsson tests a richly decorated battle axe given to him by\u0000 the king of Norway and the treatment and symbolism of axes throughout the saga. This\u0000 episode, complemented by subsequent axe references, reflects and reinforces the founding\u0000 narrative of the settlement of Iceland and the strained relationship between Iceland\u0000 and hegemonistic Norway in the thirteenth century, the likely date of the saga’s composition.\u0000","PeriodicalId":111474,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian-Canadian Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130368784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Writing Beyond the Ending” and Diasporic Narrativity in Loveleen Rihel Brennaʼs Min annerledeshet, min styrke","authors":"M. Barkve","doi":"10.29173/scancan154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan154","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: This article analyzes Loveleen Rihel Brenna’s memoir, Min annerledeshet, min styrke (2012) [My Otherness, My Strength]. It focuses on Brenna’s use of literary appropriation techniques, the memoirist’s\u0000 use of intertextuality, and the role of the Bildungsroman genre in her memoir. The article begins by contextualizing Brenna’s diasporic location.\u0000 Then, using concepts inspired from Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s book Writing Beyond the Ending (1985) in conjunction with intertextual references from Brenna’s memoir, the article offers\u0000 a close reading of Min annerledeshet, min styrke to explore the complexity of Brenna’s use of the conventional and unconventional\u0000 patterns of the female Bildungsroman genre in order to understand how her use of the genre engages with the question of\u0000 women and multiculturalism in Norway. \u0000","PeriodicalId":111474,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian-Canadian Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121833890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Figure of the “Climate Refugee” in Inger Elisabeth Hansen’s Å resirkulere lengselen: avrenning foregår (2015)","authors":"Jenna Coughlin","doi":"10.29173/scancan153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan153","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: This article addresses the Norwegian response to global climate change and\u0000 increased human migration through an analysis of the figure of the “climate refugee” in Inger Elisabeth Hansen’s 2015 poetry collection, Å resirkulere lengselen, avrenning foregår. In addition to situating the work in the context of the so-called “refugee crisis,” the author also discusses the origins of the term “climate refugee” and the conceptual and ethical problems surrounding such a designation. The article\u0000 examines notions of aesthetics and poetics in the text, arguing that Hansen draws\u0000 attention to the ubiquity of risk in the history of cultural exchange between humans.\u0000 Rather than a poetics that attempts to manage mobile bodies or eliminate risk, the\u0000 author argues that Hansen advocates for a poetics of relation that takes its inspiration\u0000 from dynamic forms in nature. \u0000","PeriodicalId":111474,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian-Canadian Studies","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131951515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Migrant Churches as Integration Vectors in Danish Society","authors":"Julie K. Allen","doi":"10.29173/scancan155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan155","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: In highly secular, largely ethnically homogeneous modern Denmark, migrant\u0000 churches—defined as independent Christian religious congregations with services conducted\u0000 in a language other than Danish—facilitate social engagement, networking, and cultural\u0000 fusion for newcomers to Denmark through the affirmation of multiculturalism and religious\u0000 diversity, thereby challenging the equation of integration with sameness that is common\u0000 in Scandinavia. Based on oral histories collected between 2015 and 2017 from a dozen\u0000 African Christian women in Copenhagen and Aarhus who are active members of three different\u0000 migrant churches, this article analyzes first-hand immigrant experiences with migrant\u0000 churches as vectors of integration and identity formation for newcomers to Denmark.\u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":111474,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian-Canadian Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131292419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Missing Links: Politics and the Misrecognition of the Sweden Democrats","authors":"Benjamin R. Teitelbaum","doi":"10.29173/scancan152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan152","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT: This article critiques prevailing approaches to the study of the Sweden\u0000 Democrats political party. It argues that political agendas motivate academic and\u0000 journalistic commentators to adopt a limited definition of the party in their analyses.\u0000 More specifically, the article examines a recurring question in studies of the party,\u0000 namely, to what extent it can be linked to openly race ideological and other right-wing\u0000 extremist forces in Swedish society. It shows that while ideological connections between\u0000 the party and other radical nationalists are weak, sociocultural connections are strong.\u0000 Concluding that these connections are overlooked by scholars because they are less\u0000 politically incriminating, the article calls for a paradigm shift in the study of\u0000 the Sweden Democrats, one that addresses the party as the dynamic movement it is.\u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":111474,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian-Canadian Studies","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124272128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Introduction : migration, exil et diaspora dans la région nordique”","authors":"Marit Ann Barkve","doi":"10.29173/scancan149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/scancan149","url":null,"abstract":"Lesmigrations vers et depuis la régionnordiquene représente pas un phénomène nouveau. Bien que la migration ait été une constante dans l’histoire de la région nordique, le thèmede l’immigrationdans les pays nordiques, en particulier depuis les pays non occidentaux, domine la culture populaire et le discours politique, est perçu comme un problème économique et est un sujet de l’art et de la littérature. Ce volume spécial d’Études scandinaves auCanada, intitulé «Migration, exil et diaspora dans la région nordique », explore divers aspects de la migration – à travers les lieux, l’espace et le temps – au sein de la région nordique. Alors que la nationalité et l’identité nationale sont fondamentalement complexifiées par les auteurs dans les pages suivantes, ce volume spécial élargit également les limites de la définitionde la « régionnordique » pour inclure l’Amériquenordique. SarahC. Reed etMirva Johnsonexaminent l’impact historiquede lamigration nordique sur l’Amérique nordique. L’article de Reed, « Le saint cosmopolite : l’identité mormone scandinavo-américaine de Nephi Anderson », réexamine la réception érudite de l’auteur Nephi Anderson. Reed souligne l’importance de préserver l’héritage culturel norvégien dans lesœuvres deNephi Andersonplutôt que de se concentrer uniquement sur l’identitémormone de l’auteur, tel que cela se produit le plus souvent dans la réception littéraire de Néphi Anderson. Mirva Johnson étudie la communauté finno-américaine d’Oulu, dans leWisconsin, dans son article intitulé « Substitution linguistique et changements dans la structure de la communauté : étude de cas d’Oulu,Wisconsin ». Johnson utilise des données quantitatives des recensements de 1910 et 1920, ainsi que des preuves qualitatives provenant d’histoires locales pour démontrer le changement de langue, dufinnois au bilingue, pour passer progressivement à l’anglais, dans la communauté du Wisconsin. Si Reed et Johnson détaillent lamigration historique en Amérique nordique, les articles restants de ce volume spécial examinent ces problèmes à travers une lentille contemporaine. L’article de Benjamin R. Titlebaum, « Liens manquants : la politique et la méconnaissance des démocrates suédois », critique l’approche académique dominante de l’étude des Démocrates suédois, un parti politique controversé de droite en Suède. Bien que les critiques dominantes des Démocrates suédois explorent les liens duparti avec d’autres forces d’extrêmedroite suédoises,","PeriodicalId":111474,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian-Canadian Studies","volume":"48 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125716281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}