Nordic diaspora

The Nordic diaspora may refer to:

Old diaspora

Viking and Old Norse

"Scandinavian diaspora" during this era refers to explorations, conquests, emigrations, and pioneering settlements during the Viking expansion.^[1] Scrutinising the Viking Age through the lens of settlement offers a distinct perspective, highlighting their cultural profile distinct from their predatory reputation.^[2]

Modern diaspora

The term "Nordic diaspora" is also used to describe more recent emigrations and emigrants originating in one or more of the Nordic countries.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Swedish diaspora

Swedish diaspora communities include:

Finnish diaspora

People emigrated to the United States, Canada, Ghana, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Brazil and Argentina.^[6]^[7] They have also started Utopian communities in places including Australia, Brazil, Paraguay, France, Cuba, and Sierra Leone.

Finnish diaspora communities include:

Danish diaspora

Danish diaspora communities include:

Icelandic diaspora

Icelandic diaspora communities include:

Norwegian diaspora

Norwegian diaspora communities include:

The first modern Norwegian settlement in the United States was Norwegian Ridge, in what is now Spring Grove, Minnesota.^[8]

References

^ Heather, Peter (4 March 2010). Empires and barbarians: the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe. Oxford University Press US. p. 497. ISBN 978-0-19-973560-0. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
^ Abrams, Lesley (19 January 2012). "Diaspora and Identity in the Viking Age". Early Medieval Europe. 20 (1): 17–38.
^ Hammill, Faye. "Martha Ostenso, Literary History, and the Scandinavian Diaspora". #196 (Spring 2008) Diasporic Women's Writing. Canadian Literature. Archived from the original on 7 December 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2011. ...the Scandinavian diaspora disrupts nationalist literary histories by crossing political and cultural boundaries between America and Canada.
^ Campbell, James T. (31 August 2009). Race, Nation, and Empire in American History. ReadHowYouWant.com. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-8078-5828-8. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2020. My story begins with a fragment in the history of the Scandinavian diaspora. About 1886, a young woman named Marie Hansen left Denmark, displaced by the after-effects of the Dano-Prussian War, and settled in Chicago.
^ Lien, Marianne E; Marit Melhuus. Holding worlds together: ethnographies of knowing and belonging. Berghahn Books. p. 13. ISBN 1-84545-250-X. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2020. Lund's Scandinavian diaspora informants from the USA (Chapter 4) re-embed themselves through recounting their genealogies.
^ Karni, Michael G. (1981). Finnish Diaspora: United States. Multicultural History Society of Ontario.
^ Karni, Michael G. (1981). Finnish Diaspora: Canada, South America, Africa, Australia and Sweden. Multicultural History Society of Ontario.
^ Chad Muller (2002). Spring Grove: Minnesota's first Norwegian settlement. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-1949-9. Spring Grove: Minnesota's First Norwegian Settlement is a tribute to the state's earliest Norwegian emigrants, and to generations of Norwegian Americans who have made this small farming community amongst deep valleys, fjord-like bluffs, and ...

[Heather2010-1] Heather, Peter (4 March 2010). Empires and barbarians: the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe. Oxford University Press US. p. 497. ISBN 978-0-19-973560-0. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2011.

[2] Abrams, Lesley (19 January 2012). "Diaspora and Identity in the Viking Age". Early Medieval Europe. 20 (1): 17–38.

[hammill-3] Hammill, Faye. "Martha Ostenso, Literary History, and the Scandinavian Diaspora". #196 (Spring 2008) Diasporic Women's Writing. Canadian Literature. Archived from the original on 7 December 2010. Retrieved 30 March 2011. ...the Scandinavian diaspora disrupts nationalist literary histories by crossing political and cultural boundaries between America and Canada.

[fragment-4] Campbell, James T. (31 August 2009). Race, Nation, and Empire in American History. ReadHowYouWant.com. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-8078-5828-8. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2020. My story begins with a fragment in the history of the Scandinavian diaspora. About 1886, a young woman named Marie Hansen left Denmark, displaced by the after-effects of the Dano-Prussian War, and settled in Chicago.

[Lien-5] Lien, Marianne E; Marit Melhuus. Holding worlds together: ethnographies of knowing and belonging. Berghahn Books. p. 13. ISBN 1-84545-250-X. Archived from the original on 3 November 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2020. Lund's Scandinavian diaspora informants from the USA (Chapter 4) re-embed themselves through recounting their genealogies.

[6] Karni, Michael G. (1981). Finnish Diaspora: United States. Multicultural History Society of Ontario.

[7] Karni, Michael G. (1981). Finnish Diaspora: Canada, South America, Africa, Australia and Sweden. Multicultural History Society of Ontario.

[8] Chad Muller (2002). Spring Grove: Minnesota's first Norwegian settlement. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-1949-9. Spring Grove: Minnesota's First Norwegian Settlement is a tribute to the state's earliest Norwegian emigrants, and to generations of Norwegian Americans who have made this small farming community amongst deep valleys, fjord-like bluffs, and ...

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