Prairie Cooks

Prairie Cooks
Author: Carrie Young
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2000
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0877457174

In her warm and often deliciously funny memoir Prairie Cooks, Carrie Young celebrates the Norwegian American foods of her childhood in an artful blend of reminiscences and recipes. Book jacket.

The Promised Land

The Promised Land
Author: Patrick E. Thomas
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2010-08-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1401096611

THE PROMISED LAND is the story of Theodor, a Danish immigrant, who struggles to integrate into the American culture. It is his love-hate story; the awe, the wonder, the ecstasy of experiencing all things new, versus the stress of loneliness, the humiliation of being considered stupid, the agony of being shunned. He works with machines he knows nothing about, with people who speak a language that boggles his mind. Enamoured with American affluence, he strikes out on his own. He lives in a dugout, and plants his corn by hand. He is overjoyed with an unusually large crop, but when he attempts to sell it, the market has collapsed and he is reduced to sharing the grain with his animals. He becomes despondent, depressed. He wants to go home, but he cannot. He had come to America on someone else's papers...

Yiddish

Yiddish
Author: Salomo A. Birnbaum
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1979
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780719007699

The Follinglo Dog Book

The Follinglo Dog Book
Author: Peder Gustav Tjernagel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1999
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Peder Gustav Tjernagel (1864-1932) recorded these stories in pencil on a school notepad in 1909. The manuscript was later edited by relatives who self-published the book as a family record. In his foreword to The Follinglo Dog Book, Wayne Franklin, professor of English at Northeastern University, places the book in its historical context and addresses our changing attitudes toward the humane treatment of house pets since the nineteenth century.

Norwegian Dictionary

Norwegian Dictionary
Author: Forlang A.S. Cappelens
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2015-08-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1136768548

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue

A Grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse Tongue
Author: Rasmus Rask
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1976-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027286566

This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask’s Anvising till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket (1818). This re-edition, with an added bio-bibliography of Rask, should enable the linguist of today to obtain a fairly rounded picture of this important 19th-century scholar who, together with Bopp and Grimm, has justly been ranked among the founding fathers of the comparative-historical study of Indo-European languages. Rasmus Kristian Rask (1787–1832) did not occupy himself with historical linguistics alone as a comparativist, but also with language as a system based on a notion of structure comprised of three key ideas: the idea of wholeness, the idea of transformation (derivation and composition), and the idea of self-regulation. He formulated theoretical and practical premises for the composition of grammars, and in this he was far ahead of his time and in closer proximity to the linguistic concerns and problems of our era. From both theoretical and pedagogical points of view, Rask’s grammar of Icelandic remains a most remarkable work.