BOOKS - HISTORY - Vikings in the Attic In Search of Nordic America
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692089
692089
Vikings in the Attic In Search of Nordic America
Author: Eric Dregni
Year: 2014
Number of pages: 312
Format: PDF
File size: 9,6 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2014
Number of pages: 312
Format: PDF
File size: 9,6 MB
Language: ENG
But what does it actually mean to grow up Scandinavian-American or to live with these Norwegians, Swedes, Finns, Danes, and Icelanders among us? In Vikings in the Attic, Dregni tracks down and explores the significant—and quite often bizarre—historic sites, tales, and traditions of Scandinavia’s peculiar colony in the Midwest. It’s a legacy of the unique—collecting silver spoons, a suspicion of flashy clothing, shots of turpentine for the common cold, and a deep love of rhubarb pie—but also one of poor immigrants living in sod houses while their children attend college, the birth of the co-op movement, the Farmer–Labor party, and government agents spying on Scandinavian meetings hoping to nab a socialist or antiwar activist.