The Nordic diaspora may refer to:
Old diaspora
[edit]Viking and Old Norse
[edit]"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
[edit]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
[edit]Swedish diaspora communities include:
- Swedish Americans
- Swedish Argentines
- Swedish Australians
- Swedish Canadians
- Swedish Costa Ricans
- Ural Swedes (Russia)
- Gammalsvenskby (Ukraine)
Finnish diaspora
[edit]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:
- Finnish Americans
- Finnish Argentine
- Finnish Australians
- Finnish Canadians
- Forest Finns (Norway & Sweden)
- Kven people (Norway)
- Ingrian Finns (Russia)
- Sweden Finns
- Tornedalians (Sweden)
- Finns in Switzerland
Danish diaspora
[edit]Danish diaspora communities include:
- Danish Americans
- Danish Argentine
- Danish Australians
- Danish Canadians
- Danish minority of Southern Schleswig (Germany)
- Danish people in Greenland
- Danish New Zealanders
- Danes in Sweden
Icelandic diaspora
[edit]Icelandic diaspora communities include:
Norwegian diaspora
[edit]Norwegian diaspora communities include:
- Norwegian Americans
- Norwegian Australians
- Norwegian Canadians
- Norwegians in Finland
- Norwegian New Zealanders
- Kola Norwegians (Russia)
- Norwegian South Africans
- Norwegian diaspora in Denmark
- Norwegian diaspora in Sweden
The first modern Norwegian settlement in the United States was Norwegian Ridge, in what is now Spring Grove, Minnesota.[8]
See also
[edit]- Nordic and Scandinavian Americans
- Nordic Australians
- Scandinavian migration to Britain
- Nordic Brazilians
- Nordic and Scandinavian Canadians
- Early Scandinavian Dublin
- Scandinavian Mexicans
- Nordic New Zealanders
- Nordic Venezuelans
References
[edit]- ^ 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 ...