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Einar Haugen
In "The Adventure on the Hidden Island," three children, Leo, Max, and Mia, spend an unforgettable summer on an island in Northern Europe. From helping an injured animal, to getting…
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings…
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn…
VOYAGES TO VINLAND The first American saga VOYAGTTS TO VINLAND The first American saga newly translated and interpreted by EINAR HAUGEN Thompson Professor of Scandinavian Languages University of Wisconsin Illustrated…
Features more than 60,000 Norwegian words and their English equivalents. This dictonary covers phonemic transcriptions. It provides coverage and explanation of Norwegian idioms and word usage, including examples from standard…
This volume is an anthology of studies by internationally-leading linguists commemorating Huagen’s contribution to linguistics. Topics covered include: the sociology of language, sociolinguistics, language in human relations, language contact and…
Odd Einar Haugen
Gives an overview of Old Norwegian and Old Icelandic language and literature, covering the areas of hand-writing, text criticism, runology, palaeography, names, language history from Old Norse to Middle Norwegian…
Einar Haugen,Camilla Cai
A biography of Ole Bull - composer, virtuoso violinist, child prodigy, friend of Schumann and Liszt and tireless promotor of Norwegian art and culture. It provides a comprehensive listing of…
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Einar Haugen,Thomas L Markey
Jonathan Wylie,David Margolin
The Ring of Dancers is composed a series of studies of aspects of Faroese life, language, and folk ways. A recurrent theme is the continuing reformulation of Faroese culture since…
O. E. Rolvaag
A sequel to Giants in the Earth , this work tells the tale of Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Beret and their children, Syvert Tonseten and Kjersti, and Sorine struggle…
