摘要：Norwegian “studies” of America started really more than a thousand years ago, when Leif Ericsson landed in Vinland, his name for that part of New Foundland where his party made quarters around the year A.D. 1000. However, it was not until 1825 that modern mass emigration from Norway to America started in earnest, when a small sailing vessel, the sloop Restaurationen, left the little village of Tysvær on the west coast of Norway, near Stavanger, for New York, carrying a load of 52 Quaker emigrants led by the legendary Cleng Peerson. From 1825 until mass emigration petered out a hundred years later, more than 800,000 Norwegians had left for American shores. Today there are about as many people of Norwegian descent in the United States as in the Old Country, and only Ireland has yielded a higher proportion of its population to America than Norway.
关键词：James Fenimore Cooper; Cleng Peerson; Sigmund Skard; Ingrid Semmingsen; Koht Halvdan; Olav Riste; Geir Lundestad; Torbjørn Sirevåg; Dorothy Burton Skårdal; Oscar Handlin; Orm Øverland; Mark Luccarelli; Deborah Kitchen Døderlein; Ole O. Moen; Erik Kielland-Lund; Tore Tingvold Petersen; David C. Mauk; Fredrik Chr. Brøgger; Arne Neset; Robert Mikkelsen; Magne Dypedahl; Robert G. Baehr; James Godbolt; Øyvind Gulliksen; Rasmus Sunde; Per Winther; Seyersted Brita Lindberg; Per Seyersted; Sigmund Roe; Øyunn Hestetun; Zeljka Svrljuga
其他关键词：Vietnam War; women’s history; Native American history; American Civilization; old War; popular culture; multiculturalism; Film Studies; Bologna; American History; foreign policy; immigration
