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For me... the past holds the key to who I am, which is why I am writing this book at the end of my life. As an immigrant who in 1956 arrived as a nineteen-year old, looking for educational opportunities denied to me in post-war Germany, the history of my homeland, my mother tongue (and its embedded humor), the grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters I left behind, the social customs, foods, music, and culture - embodied my own past which I...

Myth and Tradition in Norwegian Literature and Folklife: Essays explores how in the rural areas of Norway, where modern industry made few inroads until WWI, old understandings of self and nature continued to construe reality in ways no longer available to urbanized societies steeped in science, technology, and commerce. Using methods of myth criticism first developed in the 1970s, the essays show how Norse myth and Norway folk tradition shaped...

In the summer of 2018, the authors took a three-month trip to Norway, Germany, and Austria to reconnect with family and their cultural heritage, and to live the question of travel in the Age of Climate Change.

Based on extensive fieldwork, the book explores the celebration of the Norwegian American heritage in the Pacific Northwest to provide a sense of community, a cultural home missing in much of contemporary, commercially and technologically driven, urban life.