Thank you so much for watching! I really enjoy reading all your stories about family or relations, so keep them coming. And hit subscribe if you enjoy history films.

@igorflexus9493

Жыл бұрын

Veldig bra!

It’s incredible for a Norwegian to watch this. We actually have a little colony in America

@nickswisher6759

3 жыл бұрын

In the Midwest we really cherish what Norwegian traditions we have. Even if it is just something simple like making Lefse. I’m hoping that the future generations carry on that same value of culture, but it’s something that is becoming less important to people nowadays. One of my favorite Scandinavian places is a stave church on Washington Island in Wisconsin. The Norsk stuff is kinda in the background, but it’s really rewarding to seek out and learn more about

@Strykehjerne

3 жыл бұрын

Sjekk Oleanna.. Olaf Bull's lille prosjekt 😉 New Norway kolonien planlagt i Pennsylvania..gikk ikke helt etter planen.. Sitter i Sigdal, (på Prestfoss).. litt rart å se banneret i starten der 🙄😁

@antebellumstage

3 жыл бұрын

@@nickswisher6759 Thats so cool to hear that some Americans eat Lefsa! Didn't know that food traditions remained.

@YourSweatyUncle

3 жыл бұрын

lul your little cute colony. Search for Sweden Hills in Japan.

@antiv

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently there are more Norwegian-Americans in the US than Norwegians in Norway. Nice docu!

I am from Norway and this was honestly so touching to watch. I didn’t know that there are so many Norwegian Americans that still hold on to their ancestors’ traditions. Sadly, Norway today is not what they might think, many traditions are probably only existing in the US. And I have to say I was blown away by the Norwegian accent of that nice Tobacco farmer. Norwegian is a weird language to that extent that you need to speak a certain dialect in order to sound fluent. If not, Norwegians will immediately hear that one is not a native. The tobacco farmer nailed that! Awesome documentary. Lots of love from Norway🇳🇴

@z1az285

Жыл бұрын

It's something like the French spoken in Quebec today. It resembles the French spoken around the time they immigrated, still retains a lot of older French words and different from modern day French.

@JonathanHerz

Жыл бұрын

@@z1az285 I have read that English and Spanish in North America also retain older words and forms that subsequently changed in their modern European versions.

@z1az285

Жыл бұрын

@@JonathanHerz Yes, that too. I've heard it from others here. I found out that "bub" for example is an old English word as is "bay window". No experience with Spanish, but makes sense too. Someone from Florida would know better.

@dinkster1729

Жыл бұрын

@@JonathanHerz The accent in North American English is the older English accent. The U.K. accents are newer.

@dougtheviking6503

Жыл бұрын

We are here and we drink Aquavit.

I love how the old guy five minutes into the video says they're 7 different groups from various parts of Norway, then proceeds to exclusively list places from Østlandet...

@Vingul

3 жыл бұрын

@ಠ_ಠ I don’t believe you.

@Vingul

3 жыл бұрын

@ಠ_ಠ Right.

@Nghilifa

3 жыл бұрын

@ಠ_ಠ True that, I'm also from Bergen. I think it's because Bergen was/is a coastal city with lots of interaction with people coming from abroad, so our culture is somewhat different than from those who are from the eastern parts of the country etc.

@bezzerwizzer6448

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, norway is a country that have more than what is , east in the country... And Bergen isnt all there is in west eiter.... I know Norway isnt big, but reading comments,and watching this video, makes Norway come off even smaller! I love Norway . And i have lived in various places in Norway , a lot of them , actually 😁✌

@davidoverbye3410

Жыл бұрын

That is how the lags are organized. My family came from Ringerike, so I joined that one. (I had to produce birth certificates from the church in Norderhov to join - they take this stuff seriously). We are grouped like that as well, but only with nearby regions. Drammen, Hole, Lier, Modum, etc. He should not really say all over Norway. Just the old counties like Buskerud.

Han eldre mannen fra Westby hadde en herlig dialekt!

@SuperFranzs

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutt!

@isackbjerregard

3 жыл бұрын

Hørtes veldig ut som en ekte, gammeldags totning!

@strxkereye

3 жыл бұрын

*The old man from Westby had (unknown) dialect.* I don’t speak Norwegian by this is what I see.

@toretoresen6802

3 жыл бұрын

@@strxkereye 'lovely' :)

@trude8073

3 жыл бұрын

@@strxkereye Yea, the older man from Westby has a lovely dialect :) (sometimes we write past tense while still referring to something that still exist - hence "has".. or at least I do, in my dialect. Lol) Good guess!

12:58 "årre heite, for ei kveite" That made me smile, if his ancestors are not from sunnmøre i dont know what haha

I was born & raised in NYC, but all of my family are Swedes & Norwegians in Minnesota. I was lucky enough to be taught Swedish as a young child, & I will definitely be teaching it to my children when I have some. We need to keep Scandinavian heritage alive in the US!

@2.Cuzzzz

4 жыл бұрын

Wow

@nordscan9043

10 ай бұрын

Toppen

Norway actually has a large, prosperous colony in the United States. It is called Minnesota. I was born there and our families still speak with a Norwegian lilt. My family emigrated from Lillehammer in 1870 and opened a department store in the Twin Cities area. I still have my great grandmother’s Bible printed in Christiana. Like many Norwegians my family spoke English fluently so they had an easy adjustment in the United States. I have traveled in Norway and feel very much at home there.

@christerskjellvik2169

2 жыл бұрын

Lets do Minnesota norwegian… from A to Å

@bobloblaw10001

8 ай бұрын

As a percentage of original settlement when the land was stolen from native Americans, the state of North Dakota is more Norwegian than Minnesota

@bobloblaw10001

8 ай бұрын

There are a lot of norskies and swedes and Finnish Americans in Minnesota to be sure, but there were more than equal numbers of anglos and Germans. Plus some Czechs and Irish and a few Italians etc, somewhat later Latinos, FBAs, Somalis, hmong, etc

Clayton's norwegian gave me whiplash. It was like listening to my grandmother from rural Hedmark

@aregranhaug8617

3 жыл бұрын

Was he born in Norway? His Norwegian was really, really good.

@brandonrustad2490

Жыл бұрын

@@aregranhaug8617 Probably not. My grandfather was a second generation American (family is from Hurdal in Akershus) and English was his second language. His diction when speaking norsk was just the same as Clayton.

Holy moly it's astoninishing hearing the tobacco farmer. Doesen't have the stereotypical american accent at all from Norwegian/americans, in fact he has a very specific rural dialect. The guy from Decorah was struggling a bit more, but also had a pretty distinct Northern-norwegian dialect

A few years ago we cleared out my grandfathers attic here in Norway and found dozens of american newspapers written in norwegian from ca 1900. His relativves in America would write and send papers back home.

@Paolur

2 жыл бұрын

@Marshmallow Man We know some, they've visited periodically over the years. Really nice people

@dinkster1729

9 ай бұрын

Did you turn the papers over to an archive or library? They might be the only copies of that newspaper that survived. Perhaps, your grandfather's relatives were mentioned in those newspaper. That's why they were sent back to Norway maybe or had he spent time in the U.S. and would know some of the people mentioned in the newspaper?

my wife is Norwegian and was impressed with the older gentelman's accent and was able to recognize his family came from the north and aside from a little stumble was actually spot on.

@Asdfghjkl-us5jr

3 жыл бұрын

He definitely weren’t from the north

The tobacco farmer got a lovley understandeble norwegian dialect :))

I am neither Norwegian or American, but I find this documentary really great and informative. I rarely get to learn the stories of the European settlers that came to America in the 19th century. I am German, so I can imagine that Germans in this time went through very similar experiences. Cultural preservation in the US is such a special thing. Anyone who says Americans have no culture is talking out of their ass. THIS is American culture.

@NorthernHistory

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your insight. I couldn't agree more. Culture exists everywhere humans go.

I can relate to the thing about them not talking about Norway. My dad's uncle migrated to the USA after participating in WW2 in the 1940s. My grandma never heard anything from her brother at all until she got the news of his death 30 years later. When I tried to ask her about relatives in the US, she just went blank and didn't wanna say anything. So I guess it was painful for them.

@kangz8030

3 жыл бұрын

Yea same for me when I asked about my grandmother

@kugellehr

3 жыл бұрын

perhaps he had served with the Germans so the family was afraid to talk about him?

The Lutheran Church my family attended when i was in high school (the 1960's) had been started by Norwegians. We had bi-lingual services until the 1950's ....and i remember singing Norwegian Christmas songs. Free Norwegian language lessons were offered----and this was in Los Angeles, California. A long way from Minnesota!

@dinkster1729

9 ай бұрын

I'm in Kingston, Ontario and I am of part Norwegian American descent. My mother married my father in 1948 and they moved to Ontario. I spent years in northern Ontario as a child and, then, we moved to southern Ontario. I lived in Newfoundland for most of the 1970s and, then, moved back to Kingston. I met my husband and married and had 2 children who are now grown. People do move around.

As a Norwegian it makes my heart swell with pride with how they're trying their best to keep the Norwegian descent going 🥰 The way they're singing our national song, counting in Norwegian and wearing their bunad ❤️ Makes me pretty emotional 🥺

@vekteren3549

3 жыл бұрын

Den igjen de gjør alt de kan for å beholde demmes forfedre sin tradisjoner. Desverre snakker meget få av dem norsk

@kaxn

3 жыл бұрын

@@vekteren3549 Jeg husker vi besøkte familien vår i statene.. Og en av de eldste påsto ho snakka norsk og alle trodde på ho. Skuffelsen var stor når det kom fram at ho bare laga ordlyder som hørtes "norske" ut. Det var ikke ett eneste ord i den bablinga. :p

@vekteren3549

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaxn ahah jeg hadde tatt ifra hennes stolthet med engang. Hun er ikke i nærheten av Norsk, hvis man ikke engang kan språket!

@eirikbrattsti

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaxn Ouff

@Vingul

3 жыл бұрын

@@vekteren3549 vel - sett at en nordmann er født i et annet land og vokser opp uten å lære norsk. Vedkommende er fortsatt norsk.

Shed a tear or two when the americans started singing the national anthem, that felt great to listen to

@yahyahussein425

Жыл бұрын

???

When my great grandfather came, he came through Canada and over lake Erie on a ship called the Atlantic. It sank, and over 200 Norwegian souls were lost. He made it though. Had a very rough time. But he kept on, and settled in neilsville, mn.

@NorthernHistory

5 жыл бұрын

The many stories we had of the Norwegian immigrants to America is that they had incredibly rough journeys getting there (and sometimes back again), and they were very poor. They had to endure so much before they could eventually enjoy any prosperity.

@nickswisher6759

3 жыл бұрын

@@NorthernHistory I wish I knew more about my ancestors history. The one anecdote I do have is about my ancestor, Jorgen Marsett, a railroad worker, who was killed when a bucket fell on his head in a well. Im hoping more people try to connect back to their ancestries in the future here in America. People forget that their ancestors were immigrants once, and had to work hard to get us where we are.

@1gakus

3 жыл бұрын

I have family members on that ship aswell! a family of 4 and they all miraculously survived. They moved back to Norway later on. Im a bit flabbergasted seeing this story here after hearing it from my own grandfather.

@SolSkinn

3 жыл бұрын

@@1gakus how wonderful and strange that two strangers would be connected in such a way! If you'd like to read my ggfather's account of the wreck, here is a link. He calls four Norwegian miles, 28 English miles lol! www.norwayheritage.com/articles/templates/norwegian_settl.asp?articleid=32&zoneid=17

@erikthorsen240

3 жыл бұрын

That is such a shame!

Love the old man in Westby, he really warmed up to his Norwegian. Would have loved to hear more of his stories! I´m Norwegian, and would love to do the same roadtrip after this pandemic. How interesting. 💕

Thank you very much for this documentary!As a Chinese American I always look up to Norwegian history. I want to live in one of the Scandinavian settlements in my future!

@theneighborkid738

2 жыл бұрын

You Are more than welcome

det er så vakre da. jeg er norsk-australianer, og jeg er så glad i hjemlandet- vi har ikke masse nordfolk (henry lawson var halv-norsk, og det finnes svenskekyrker, men det er ikke et samfunn eller bygder liksom i minnesota). Denne videoen er veldig hyggelig og jeg er spent til å se på den igjen når jeg er eldre. :33333

@dttkku3954

5 жыл бұрын

hvor har du lært norsk fra? imponerende hvis du er født og oppvokst i Australia :)

@daginn896

3 жыл бұрын

Du skriver godt norsk :)

The church, The Norway Building, has been moved back to Norway, and is currently located at Bårdshaug Herregård in Orkanger.

Thanks for publishing this documentary! I am preparing a presentation on American Norwegian and I've learned so much from your film. Thank you and greetings from Germany!

@NorthernHistory

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@cinemacritic9571

5 жыл бұрын

hey I'm from Norway and I'm learning german

Excellent documentary! I live in Oslo, Indian expat and very much enjoyed watching this. Was able to understand most things now that I know Norwegian geopolitical and demographic details. Kudos! Venlig Hilsen! :)

Anybody who owned a farm of 160 acres of in Norway in the 1800's where at the top of the Norwegian society. Having that much land would be something equivalent to a Lord or Duke in Britain. Maybe a little exaggeration, but imagine the idea of getting to be a "King" for the price of a boat ticket and five bucks.

Takk for den jobben som ble gjort med den filmen her. VIktig å dokumentere og ta vare på

jeg er Norskamerikansk og jeg er fra Minnesota.

@twainjones

3 жыл бұрын

Hilsen fra Oslo 👍😊

@Twiggyay

3 жыл бұрын

Enda en hilsen fra Oslo! ... Eller. Rett sør for Oslo.

@TheOftedal

3 жыл бұрын

Hilsen fra Stavanger!

@mrgreenguy5193

3 жыл бұрын

Fra Skien her, men har veldig lyst til å flytte til USA en dag haha

@lauren7005

3 жыл бұрын

Me too 😂

This was so fun to watch, great video :)

@NorthernHistory

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you :)

I have nothing but appreciation for Nords. A gorgeous, rich culture for sure.

@hectorcardenas2171

2 жыл бұрын

But the best european culture is the Mediterranean.

@erlendloe315

Жыл бұрын

@@hectorcardenas2171 why you say that??? All cultures are great!!!

@peterc.1618

Жыл бұрын

@@hectorcardenas2171 Saying Mediterranean culture is a bit like saying British accent, there are quite a few of each. The culture north of the Mediterranean is very different from the culture to the south. Italy itself has several distinct areas with their own culture as does Spain. At a guess I would say that what is considered Mediterranean in the US is probably southern Italian culture.

@hectorcardenas2171

Жыл бұрын

@@peterc.1618 neither of you understood my comment. My comment has deeper meaning.

Meget bra dokumentar. Har leita lenge etter noe som dette.Takk

Thank you very much for posting this! I am a mixed European American but I am mostly Norwegian. I know the names back to well before they left thanks to the Lutheran church records. My great grandmothers Reinertson and Iverson both spoke some Norwegian still and cooked Norwegian food. They both passed before I was an adult and did not get to learn what they thought it meant to be Norwegian American. My mother learned to make lefse from them but not much else has been passed down. It is good to be able to research culture and fit it into my story.

@mrmarkymark77

9 ай бұрын

Lefse is delicious!

Awesome work. Very relaxed. Organic storytelling.

Truly a phenomenally interesting production, on a topic that has fascinated my family and me for a long time. Thank you for putting this together!

A room full of americans singing the Norwegian national anthem just feels hella weird

@solanskotnes6652

3 жыл бұрын

enig

@jeppepedersen7006

3 жыл бұрын

@Arne Nilsen is Japan old fashioned to you?

@TheGhostHAG

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeppepedersen7006 my family came to America just before 1900 and we know nothing of our culture. it was lost right away and now my family is desperately trying to find those roots. dont say it feels weird, we're still norwegian-american

@Vingul

3 жыл бұрын

@Arne Nilsen multiculturalism is cancer, but Norwegian Americans tending to their roots is wholesome :-)

@ronjakh

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheGhostHAG If your genetic heritage has been diluted for that amount of time, you’re not really Norwegian anymore. Just stating scientific facts.

Fantastisk dokumentar !

@NorthernHistory

3 жыл бұрын

Takk!

I live in Park Ridge, Illinois, just northwest of Chicago. We have a huge Norwegian celebration here every year, with a parade and people in the traditional dress of their ancestral village. There is also a big fair with vendors selling handmade Norwegian items. I always bought my children their winter mittens and hats from the women who would sit knitting in the little booths. I still have them-they are gorgeous.

@dinkster1729

9 ай бұрын

Is knitting a Norwegian tradition? My mother's mother's family was from Iowa. Her Grandfather was the only sibling born in Norway and her grandmother was born in Iowa. My grandmother crocheted and tatted. She didn't knit. My mother, however, was taught to knit by a teacher at Camrose Luthern College in Camrose, Alberta during her last year of high school. She knit all her sweaters. All of our sweaters (4 children). My father's sweaters. Her winter hats. Mittens. Scarves. A dress and a skating skirt for my daughter. A Ninja turtle sweater for myson. She even had some left over wool and knit place mats once. I thought that was excessive. A footcare R.N. told me she didn't knit cables. "What?" I thought, "How can you call yourself a knitter if you don't knit cable sweaters. Aran knit sweaters my mother's specialty.

@maryannebrown2385

9 ай бұрын

@@dinkster1729 I mean, it must be. Some of the women I saw knitting were born in the US into Norwegian families. But I remember one vendor who was born in Norway, and her mother would sit in a chair in the booth knitting. This is where I bought most of my children’s winter hats and mittens. The vendor had a strong Norwegian accent and her mother didn’t speak English.

@dinkster1729

9 ай бұрын

@@maryannebrown2385 I had a beautiful medium to dark green Aran knit sweater that my mother knit for me. Unfortunately, I left it at an end of year party where I was teaching on Fogo Island. I had to drive back to get it when I realized that I had left it at the people's house who had the party. When I explained to a friend of mine why I had to drive back, she exclaimed, "That old sweater like the fisherman wear!" LOLOL! Some people have no respect for the old ways, I guess. Just for the record, the pattern came from a copy of Woman's Weekly and was not meant to be worn by "old fishermen" whatever this Newfoundland woman thought. LOLOL! I wonder what a sweater like that would cost a tourist visiting in Newfoundland or Ireland. Even the wool today would be worth a pretty penny.

@dinkster1729

9 ай бұрын

@@maryannebrown2385 My Grandmother spoke perfect North American English and when she spoke with her slightly younger sister and her youngest brother she spoke to them in English and they replied in English. They didn't speak Norwegian among themselves. I only met my Great-Grandmother twice before she died about 1953 or so. I was only 4 then so I don't know if her English was unaccented or not, but I presume it would be since she was born in Iowa to Norwegian parents. I don't know if she spoke Norwegian to her children or not. Probably, she did, but not all the time like her husband. My Grandmother tried speaking Norwegian to Norwegian immigrants in Calgary, Alberta, but they claimed they didn't understand her. I believe American Norwegian is different from the Norwegian spoken in Norway today. I guess these Norwegian immigrants didn't make much of an effort to speak Norwegian to my Grandmother either. They probably wanted to use their English as much as possible. (My Grandmother lived with my mother here in Kingston, Ontario for 8 years before she died after her husband passed away in 1973 so she told me some of her childhood experiences and of her experiences as a young woman farming on the Canadian prairie.

@maryannebrown2385

9 ай бұрын

@@dinkster1729 So my Great-Grandparents had an arranged marriage. They both emigrated from Germany, but he was 44 and she was 24 when they got married. He wrote letters to her, she came to North Dakota and they married four days later. They had 15 children, one of which was my Grandmother. My Grandmother never learned German. It was very frowned upon to speak anything other than English. Her parents only spoke to her in English.

My Family of Origin came from MN and WI and everyone still lives there, except our family. I recently did AncestryDNA and discovered that I am 52% Scandinavian`` specifically, Norwegian from the Oslo area. There are Norwegians in my family on both my mother and father side. My maternal grandmother came here when she was 2 years old. We did celebrate many foods from Norway and even some of the music and some of the folk tales of Norway when I was little. I am proud of my heritage.. Thanks for sharing this video. I hope to visit Norway one day soon

@MissMaria1988

6 жыл бұрын

Oh.. We know you are there. I took a dna test too and found alot of relatives in the States. Most here have you know.. ine, norway

Thanks, a brilliant docos!

Mange amerikanere på videoen som snakker utmerket norsk, jeg er søkkimponert. Hilsen fra Nord-Norge :) A lot of americans on this video that speaks excellent norwegian, I'm pretty damned impressed. Greetings from Northern Norway :)

@Spavvner

4 жыл бұрын

PianoWorks danish is written almost the same as norwegian

@AtomicMonkeybutt

3 жыл бұрын

@@Spavvner Yeah, our written language (or half of it i guess) is based off of Danish, even alot of our speech.

@burger9997

3 жыл бұрын

@@Spavvner it doesn’t sound the same thats for sure

@FenceThis

6 ай бұрын

@@burger9997 depends on what parts of Norway/Denmark and how fast or sloppy they speak. Norske i Sørlandet er ofte temmelig fine til at slå over i norsk udtalt på dansk og danskere med lidt sprogøre evner osse den omvendte manøvre, mere skal der ikke til

Great documentary. I came over to Galesville, Wisconsin back in 1982 and stayed there for 4 months. Back then there was still a lot of older people speaking fluent norwegian because thats what they spoke at home until they started school. .

@NorthernHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes, we heard a lot of stories from the generation up and coming in the 80s talking about their grandparents who spoke norwegian at home.

@spiritmatter1553

Жыл бұрын

@@NorthernHistory I asked my mother if she ever heard Norwegian spoken at home. She said no, though she was constantly dropping Norwegian words when I was growing up. Both her parents were Norwegian immigrant farmers who settled in Western New York. Mom was born in 1921 and died in 2011.

@dinkster1729

9 ай бұрын

@@NorthernHistory Oh, yes, my Grandmother born in 1898 in Iowa told me her father the only child of her grandparents born in Norway would only speak to his children in Norwegian, never in English. She spoke Norwegian once to recent Norwegian immigrants to Calgary, Alberta, Canada, but they couldn't understand her. Perhaps, she spoke a different dialect?

@dinkster1729

9 ай бұрын

@@spiritmatter1553My mother told me her parents refused to speak to her brother and her in anything other than English even though my Grandmother spoke German, English and Norwegian and my Grandfather spoke German and English. My Grandfather's grandfather had come to the Berlin, Ontario area (now called Kitchener in the 1830s at 10 years of age from Germany. My Grandparents spoke German to each other when they didn't want their 2 children to understand what they were talking about. My Grandmother had learned German because she worked for a German-speaking farm family for several years. My mother was born in 1923 in Spokane, Washington, but returned to Alberta where her father farmed and her brother was born in Alberta in 1926. Only speaking English is s all part of that "Be an American and speak English" movement that the Norwegian expert on Norwegian Americans talks about. I don't think my mother knew a word of Norwegian. I did inherit as the eldest child of the eldest child of the eldest surviving child of my great-grandfather Bakken his individual communion cup which is supposed to have come with him from Norway. He took his first communion in that cup apparently in the 1870s. However, individual communion cups were a Norwegian custom, but were not adopted until the 1890s. So I'm not sure if my Great-Grandfather made his first communion later than the 1870s or if individual communion cups were given out to remember a person's first communion and, then, became the custom in the 1890s for members of the congregation to keep using individual communion cups to stop the spread of germs or what?

@NorthernHistory

9 ай бұрын

@@dinkster1729 She probably did or kept a lot of the old vocabulary. We noticed that a lot of words used by the older generations felt like listening to someone from the early 1900s when we interviewed them.

Wow! That was an amazing view. It was a joy to hear Norwegian still spoken by the younger folks you met. I had to get a book and learn it on my own when I was about 11 or 12. Over the past 60 years I think I've had maybe six or seven conversations with other Norwegian speakers. Considering how my family (Slekten Bull fra Trøndelag) is so wide spread around the planet, it amazes me that I haven't met more folks from Norway. But then, I live in Buckeyestan and my only neighbors with 2nd language skills are the Mexicans, who think I speak like a Cuban. (I learned Spanish from Cuban shortwave radio and Puerto Rican teachers, so the accent's definitely Caribbean ;-) ) Who knows what my battered, book-learned Norwegian sounds like. . . . Thanks for the work you put into this video. Nice work.

@haramanggapuja

4 жыл бұрын

@@cotionicar Jeg kan en liten norsk fra tid til annen. Leser jeg det temmelig god; jeg har to eksempler av slektsboken som ble skrevet av min oldefar. Men man hører ikke norsk her i Ohio. En gang i Utah hadde jeg en samtale med en norsk pike, misjonær ved LDS museet. En gang da, og for mange år siden kunne jeg snakke med norsk radioamatørene. Ikke idag. Så, ja, jeg kan norsk ennå. En liten ;-)

@KevinSolem

3 жыл бұрын

@@haramanggapuja Du er flink til å skrive norsk også vil jeg si

@haramanggapuja

3 жыл бұрын

​@@KevinSolem Takk. Jeg synes at norsk er ikke så vanskelig å lære. Uttalen, vel, det er en annen sak ;-) Etter at jeg begynnte å lære norsk, da jeg var i skolen, lærte jeg også spansk og fra den, da jeg var i universitet, språkvitenskap. Avdelingsdirektørinne var dansk. Det var veldig interesant. En av mine FaceBook venner var min profesorinne av språkvitenskap også.

@KevinSolem

3 жыл бұрын

@@haramanggapuja Smarting du Nils, kunne gjerne tenkt meg å lært flere språk selv. Engelsk er såklart obligatorisk, men kunne tenkt meg å lært tysk eller russisk også. I følge wikipedia er Bull et kjent etternavn. Er det mange generasjoner siden forfedrene dine dro til usa?

@haramanggapuja

3 жыл бұрын

@@KevinSolem Jeg har her slektsbokene fra 1938 og 1976 med den hele familien fra 1510. Min kusine har boka fra 1800s, skrev av oldefar Nils Rosing Bull. Min far, George Bull Young, og hans bror, Nils Rosing Bull Young, var barna til Thomas Wilfred Young og Helga Bull. Oldemor Helga kom her til Gringolandet om 1900. Thomas var en voldsom alkoholiker. Helga dødde (selvmørd) da far og hans bror var unge. Vi forstår at Helga og sønnene var i Norge etter oldefar Nils dødde, omkring 1920. Slekten har en side på FaceBook. Jeg også. Du kan treffe meg der bedre enn her ;-)

Veldig interessant dokumentar :)

About twenty years back I was a captain on at Japanese owned combined car and container carrier on a run between ports in Japan and San Diego, San Pedro, Portland and Vancouver. Almost every trip up to Portland I would meet someone with Norwegian ancestry. One trip, the Columbia Bar pilot had some Norwegian connection, the pilot onboard the vessel ahead of us came from Stavanger. We had to anchor outside Astoria to wait for berth at Portland, and I had visit from authorities and agent, both with some Norwegian connections. The same with the Columbia River pilot. But what was really fun was when we was alongside at Portland. That call I had the opportunity to take a fast trip to Jansen Beach for some shopping. In the cab back the driver, he did look latino, asked me where I came from. I told him I was Norwegian, and also told him abut all the people with som Norwegian connections I did meet in the area. Then the driver told me when he was a kid, his grandparents always spoke Norwegian at home.

@dinkster1729

9 ай бұрын

My Great-Grandmother died in Seattle in 1948. She was of Norwegian American heritage from Iowa. My mother was born in Spokane, Washington in 1923 because her Grandmother lived there and my grandparents were visiting in December. My Great Aunt died in the Portland Oregan area in 1980 because her husband and she had retired there from the East Coast of the U.S. Yeah! There are probably lots of people of Norwegian American descent on the West Coast. They are descended from Vikings after all.

I am so fascinated by Norwegian American culture! Thanks for making this documentary!

@NorthernHistory

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@dinkster1729

9 ай бұрын

@@NorthernHistory I'm sure these folks are only Norwegian a few days a year. LOLOL!

There’s a lot of us in Seattle and the skagit valley of Washington State don’t forget us!

@sindretafjord5281

2 жыл бұрын

Very important. A lot of people from my part of Norway has reletives inn Seattle.

@corrlee

2 жыл бұрын

@@sindretafjord5281 when I was young the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle was all us!

@PowPowSunshine100

Жыл бұрын

@@corrlee Jah Jah! Ballard High School! "Lutefisk, Lutefisk, Lefse,Lefse, we're from Ballard, jah you betcha!

It's great to read all of these positive comments from Norwegians living in Norway about their American cousins. Sadly as a German (Pennsylvanian Dutch) American it is not the same with us. If I use any Pennsylvania Dutch with Germans they say that we do not speak correctly even though it is the same language we have been speaking for over 300 years. There is no familiarity between American Germans and Germans living in Germany.

@joyfairclough4686

Жыл бұрын

I also find it heartwarming!

Fasinerende dokumentar. Siste fyren dere intervjuet var jo bare rett og slett herlig!

5 жыл бұрын

enig

The town I live in has the viking cafe!!!!

It is impressive and also touching that Americans of norwegian decent hold on to Norwegian traditions. Like Matt Groening who made a Simpsons episode about Norway years ago, and all these nice American-norwegians celebrating their Norwegian roots. I wish you all a happy new 2024. May God bless you all. With love from Norway 🇧🇻🇺🇲

Ah you missed some nice Norwegian spots in Minnesota though! Skogfjorden language camp in Bemidji as well as the Norwegian institute in Minneapolis. St. Olaf College also, their logo is the Norwegian crest.

@NorthernHistory

4 жыл бұрын

Alas, unfortunately! :) We had to make a selection. We stopped by St. Olaf though.

Svært velprodusert video!

Denne dokumentaren er svært bra! Lærte mye om Norsk-Amerikanere jeg ikke visste

@NorthernHistory

3 жыл бұрын

takk!

13:22 In 2012 this sign (the green one saying Little Norway), and the entire stave chuch replica, was bought from Scott Winner and moved back back to Orkanger. I was very surprised to suddenly hear the name Orkanger in this documentary. I live there...

Tusen takk for dette. Jeg bodde i Norge for over 40 år siden og elsker fortsatt Norge og husker språket. Takk for historiene og intervjuene.

I got a great grandfather who left his family behind and went on a boat to the states somewhere. Havent been able to track him down.

Så fint at det er mye om Norge i USA også!🇳🇴

Funny to see Kai Robert Johansen playing his trumpet. He is from my town Sarpsborg in Norway 🇳🇴 😊

Good Job. It's Ok to be a proud Norwegian American. And we're American's first. Most of us feel we gave up too much of the language.

@dinkster1729

9 ай бұрын

I'm a Canadian and my mother whose mother was Norwegian American also thought of herself as Canadian. Both in Canada and the U.S. in the 1920's, speaking a language other than English was seen as unAmerican or unCanadian. There were German language schools and French language schools in Ontario up to 1912 when they were forbidden. The language of instruction was to be English. Choquette's history of French language schools mentions that there were German language schools as well as French language schools shut down by the government "in a place called Berlin, [Ontario"]. He didn't seem to realize that Berlin, Ontario was renamed Kitchener, an important southern Ontario city. The German schools never re-opened, but, of course, the French schools today are enjoying a Renaissance since the federal government started providing funds for them and for English schools in Quebec.

Lovely hearing Norwegians pronounce Midwest places.. also funny how Norwegians can pronounce Illinois correctly but many Midwesterners can’t! I’ve seen similar things to this except for Swedes, being Swedish-American myself. My ancestors came a while back in the late 1800’s, yet still today I’ve got many odd roots. My family has a rich history at a Swedish college, including my father who works there. My grandma’s house is filled with cute little trinkets and decor reminiscent of a rural Swedish home. My childhood church was an old church founded by the Swedes... incidentally I grew up thinking all Lutheran churches looked so ornate and old-fashioned (until I visited other Lutheran churches, of course). The Swedish language is sadly dead. We keep a few “trinket phrases” alive like “uff da,” “välkommen,” “hallo,” and calling a grandma “mor-mor,” but nothing resembling conversing in svenska. I do feel like it’s reaching its last breath though, sadly. Thank you for documenting this. As this continues to fizzle out, it becomes more and more important to record this. This was very cool seeing real Scandinavians raise a magnifying glass to the Scandinavian-American culture I grew up around.

@peterc.1618

Жыл бұрын

Have you heard of a TV series called Allt for Sverige? It's available her on YT and you might find it interesting. It's basically a combination of a gameshow and a reality show where Swedish Americans go to Sweden and take part in various challenges and the winner gets to meet his Swedish relatives. The challenges take part all over Sweden so you get to see quite a lot of the country. One of the early contestants loved the country so much that he'd been back nine times before they did the follow-up show (10th anniversary show I thnk it was). For any Norwegian Americans reading this the show format originated in Norway and most of their seasons are also available here on YT (Alt for Norge, marketed in the US as The Great Norway Experience I think).

Among a box of my father's personal effects I received after his passing, I came across a copy of a letter my Aunt had sent him years back indicting the dwelling of a first generation Norwegian immigrant of ours was at Nordkedalen in WI. I hope to visit it someday!

Nice documentary, but if you really want to experience it you should come! 😀 And all the strange food you heard about is still around. From the time of hardship, no nourishment. Bad harvestsand so on. We still have those things, more as a cultural thing. Especially the sheeps head dish! It is not a common thing, but its still there! 😲 Norwegian people really starved in those times, and deep down we never forgot it. We are one of the « richest»nations now, but the hardships is still in our souls.

@BIGAPEGANGLEADER

3 жыл бұрын

The hardship is definitely not in your souls. I love Norway, don't get me wrong but you guys are spoilt by dagpenger, NAV, high wages due to protectionist policy and the oil fund, etc. And this really shows in the bruk og kast culture, the ridiculous consumerism that has gripped seemingly everyone, the frequent flying... Not to mention that amount of pollution that this (and the hydrocarbon exportation - please don't give me that "we don't pollute much, we use hydroelectricity" nonsense) releases. I've lived and worked in a few countries, including Norway and the US. Norway is very much like the US, just with an enormous, comprehensive social safety net. Life is incredibly easy here. It shows.

@ostekakeutenost1308

3 жыл бұрын

@@BIGAPEGANGLEADER that has nothing to do witg her comment you douce

@ostekakeutenost1308

3 жыл бұрын

Douche***

@AtomicMonkeybutt

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, i tried sheep head at the ‘’folkehøgskole’’ in Voss. Very interesting to say the least, but definetly not for everyone. ;)

@lailalightfeather3234

3 жыл бұрын

@@ostekakeutenost1308 thanks!

Really good documentary

Spennende video!

I'm from the town where the little norway building now stands. I remember when they brought it back and assembled it. So that was pretty cool to see.

Interesting to see this kind of solidarity and community among the immigrants and their children. I am a first generation immigrant to Norway, but there is nothing like this at all for my culture and heritage, if anything I have become more absorbed and integrated into Norwegian culture because of this. I would like to visit some of these places one day and meet Norwegian Americans, despite not actually being Norwegian myself

@dinkster1729

9 ай бұрын

It's only a few people of Norwegian ancestry who continue to celebrate their Norwegian roots. Since I inherited my Great-Grandfather's cup with which he made his first communion which is in a little box with his initials and a date on it I am wondering about my Norwegian ancestry more. I knew my Grandmother's family was born and raised partly in Iowa, but I don't even know exactly where in Iowa. My youngest sister went on a trip to the old area with my mother in 1986 or so to visit some cousins of my Grandmother so I should ask her where exactly my Grandmother was raised. I visited the cousins briefly when I was 7 with my family as well, but I don't remember where it was. They had a pig farm. I remember the horrible sty those pigs lived in. My Mother lived till she was nearly 96 so I only inherited the communion cup (it resembles a shot glass that is decorated a couple of years ago.) I will pass it on to my daughter and I hope she will pass it on to her daughter who is now 12.

My 10th Great Grandfather, Andries Artensen Bradt, came here to New Ansterdam(New York) in the late 1500's. He died in 1616, in Schenectady, NY. I'm learning more and more about Norwegian culture. Very fun!

@NorthernHistory

3 жыл бұрын

I read about the Norwegian 'colony' in New York. It is a really insteresting story, but one I couldnt cover in the film. Another time!

@juggernaut420

3 жыл бұрын

Wow! You still have records about your 10th GGfather. Great!

@tenzin682

3 жыл бұрын

@@juggernaut420 Yes. I did the ancestry DNA thing. He was the father of my 9th Great Grandmother who married to my 9 GGF Tomys Swartwout, from Groningen, Netherlands. He was one of the first Dutch that came to the "new" world and traded tabacco in the Netherlands. There is a huge book called the "Swartwout Chronicles", it has a history of my mother's side of the family that came here. There were Norwegians that lived in Noordholland and came with the Dutch to settle Long Island and Manhattan in New Amsterdam. I have a whole line from that GGF that is traced back to the 1300's. My family was Frisian-Dutch. A small Germanic tribe that lived on the Archipelago from the Netherlands to Denmark. Do the ancestry DNA, it's amazing.

It always surprises me how many Scotch Irish English German and Dutch and Norwegian and European anvestrrys there are here in America that hold on to the older traditions that most Europeans who are family have forgotten and have forgotten that we are only slightly different than them yet alot different in other ways. We are more of a European melting pot of ancestery than anywhere

Lars, I'm guessing you are from the Sigdal, Eggedal area? How else would you guys know to go the 7 lag stevne? I am a member of Sigdalslag as my great-great grandfather was born on the Skuggerud Farm in Sigdal in 1871. I've just recently discovered your channel and have been greatly enjoying the videos. Thank you for your work!

@NorthernHistory

3 жыл бұрын

Cool! I am not from Sigdal, but it is an area I know very well. We happened upon 7 lag by chance, what are the odds!?

@steveseversonii1844

3 жыл бұрын

@@NorthernHistory That is crazy odds! If you are interested in more first hand accounts of why there were so many that immigrated and how their life was on the prairie, the Sigdalslag produced a few year books over the years. The first one was in 1914. They are very interesting as they give a snapshot into life back then. I believe there are copies in Sigdal as the lag keeps in good communication with the towns folks. Sigdalslag was formed in 1911 by A.B. Pedersen, a native of Sigdal. His grandson, Sidney Rand was President of St. Olaf's College in Minnesota during the 1960's and 1970's. He later went on to become the U.S. Embassador to Norway in 1980.

Very interesting! Love from Sweden!

I'm so impressed about the guy in 24:54. He's Norwegian is spot on.

@NorthernHistory

4 жыл бұрын

I know, he studied Norwegian in the States, and was fluent.

@Neophema

4 жыл бұрын

He's nowhere near fluent and his Norwegian is not spot on. I can understand him, though, and that's what matters most. :)

@d26k164

4 жыл бұрын

@@Neophema pretty close though

@nazurea

4 жыл бұрын

its not spot on man, it sounds kinda swedish like. but the flow is kinda good. Ive met somalis who speak better.

@ceschenrik

3 жыл бұрын

Lyksmannen hadde han bodd en måned i Norge hadde det vært perfekt. det er helt vilt hvor flink han var synes jeg!

Kul dokumentar!! Og Ethan Bjelland er skikkelig flink til å snakke norsk! :) I'm super impressed!

@NorthernHistory

6 жыл бұрын

Takk :)

fantastisk å se :)

Norway was a very poor country until they found and started extracting oil in the seventies. We Swedes always make fun of them for not having any advanced technology or big industries of their own saying that they are a little bit stupid and lazy. However they are always making fun of us as well. It's all in good spirit and we consider them our brothers and sisters. Nowadays they are very rich and successful due to oil and natural gas. Some Swedes even go there to work because of the good wages and beautiful nature. Visited Bergen 2 times myself. Lovely city with great people and loads of rain. Skål era jäklar!

@ahkkariq7406

Жыл бұрын

Typical Swede not to know Norway. Norwegian shipping and the shipping industry as well as hydropower and power-intensive industries such as smelters are probably not considered advanced technology for Swedes.

@whytube52

Жыл бұрын

Technology for the applications you mentioned is only partially developed in Norway. They have alot of Swedish tech in their smelters and hydro plants. Norways economy before oil was focused around marine, fishing and agricultural sectors.

Great documentary. I learned a lot, both about Norwegians, but also Americans. I wonder why there is so much lefse og flatbrød? And that cabbage thing served at about 24:14 didn't look very delicious. It isn't really a Norwegian thing just serving cabbage stu and nothing else beside, like poatoes and meat of lamb. Why not promote Norwegian nature and wilderness. That's a really unique side of Norway that you hardly find elsewhere in the world. 3000ft mountains rising up from some of the biggest fjords in the world. Tourism could be a bond between Americans, Norwegian-Americans and Norwegians. Greetings from Halden, Norway :)

@livmaritengene4973

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrworldwide3679 strange, very strange

@dinkster1729

9 ай бұрын

Canada has lots of wilderness as well and it's closer to the U.S. than Norway.

Neat Documentary. My Grandparents on my Dad' side immigrated here to the U.S. --from Tromso, Norway 1905 -- my maiden name is (Lilleeng).

Well done thanks much. Skol!

im from a heavily norwegian area in wisconsin, and I learned stuff from this! lodges make a lot more sense now. lots of 1850-1900 buildings still standing.

24:12 Lutefisk IN A CUP? Oh no no no no.. As a Norwegian, that is waaay too strange. xD It's supposed to be eaten together with cooked potatoes, sirup sauce and bacon with bacon grease, kohlrabi puree, pea puree with some mustard on the side and some shredded brown cheese sprinkled on top. With some aquavit to sip on the side. Of course, there are many variants to the dish, but traditionally, Norwegians never eat just the fish.

@jubmelahtes

3 жыл бұрын

Lutfesk soup. . .

@bobmalibaliyahmarley1551

3 жыл бұрын

@@jubmelahtes I like Lutefisk.. But, that's just disgusting.. xD No one eats the fish alone, it's essensially tasteless without the proper preparations and additions to the dish.

@livmaritengene4973

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobmalibaliyahmarley1551 I eat it with only lefse with butter on. Yammi, don't ruin it with bacon, sirup or mustard. Maybee coarse black pepper sprinkled on top.

@bobmalibaliyahmarley1551

3 жыл бұрын

@@livmaritengene4973 Lutefisk with lefse and butter is a new variant for me, I'm not gonna knock it since its probably good, there are many ways to serve it, but we can all agree on that Lutefisk ALONE in a cup.. Is very strange. xD

@livmaritengene4973

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobmalibaliyahmarley1551 Oh yes, very strange. And lefse as we have with lutefisk is made of mostly potatoes (not sweet).

Thanks for this wonderful true story. My great grand parents emigrated to New Zealand on the boat Høvding in 1874, it's second trip carting folk to their new home. Many 1000s went to America but only a few boats to New Zealand. Johan Jacob died in 1907 and his wife Bolette died in 1892.

@dinkster1729

9 ай бұрын

Hey! My Norwegian-American Grandmother's cousin was named Bolette, too. It must be a common Norwegian name, I guess.

America even has the best Norwegians!

@lukeblackford1677

Жыл бұрын

Hah ha ha!!

This was nice.

I belonged to the Norwegian club in Prescott Az. My grandma was from Norway she came today America to n 1905 she was raised in Barton North Dakota. She became a nurse and worked in Minneapolis during the Spanish Flu she had three brothers and sister and kept in touch with them and also much later found the baby that was born when the family came here. Her mother died in childbirth. Her father took the oldest boy and went to Canada never to be heard from again

I live in Oregon and they have a Scandinavian festival in Junction City in the summer. near where I live. I am not Norwegian, but German and enjoy the Oktoberfest in Mt. Angel. We lived in a farmhouse built by a Norwegian in 1921, that looked like homes in Norway when we visited Bergen, painted red with white trim, 30 years ago. Its so important to keep our heritage and traditions and to learn the language and visit the home countries, because it enriches our lives and educates us where we came from!!! And where we are headed

Great to hear the story of some of them that moved to America.

My grandpa came to America in 1950 at 10 years old from haugesund, Norway my grandma came to America in 1965 from Copenhagen, Denmark

@FenceThis

3 жыл бұрын

Then wave the Dannebrog as well

Thanks for the informative video. I recently moved to southern Minnesota and purchased an interesting home built by an immigrant from Sigdal area (Bergan) and am trying to learn more about the area. The house needs a lot of work and was wondering about exterior colors but most houses where i live were white and appears to be same around Sigdal. Wondering if a regional thing and if there were any other colors that may be suitable/historical. Who knows, maybe not?

@Rimrock300

2 жыл бұрын

The traditional Norwegian farm house color is white, with red roof, and the barn and out houses red. Not think Sigdal had any particular color scheme apart from 'the standard'. Another traditional old Norwegian house color is 'okergul', kind of yellow-brown, not know the english word for it, but one can look up using the Norwegian name)

@peterc.1618

Жыл бұрын

@@Rimrock300 It's probably what we call ochre, a pigment that comes in various colours but red ochre is really the only one I've heard of.

2:52 Nice! I never see American train like this before! Where is that? It’s doesn’t look like anything from MTA LIRR or Amtrak.

@NorthernHistory

3 жыл бұрын

Actually its a UK train en route to Heathrow as we flew in from London...

@Dan-vz7xu

2 жыл бұрын

@@NorthernHistory I'm American and never been on Amtrak, mostly because I prefer not to be stabbed or pushed in front of the train by a crazy homeless dude

The bunad at 2:18 is from Nordland county. Nordlandsbunad. Its missing a cape and an apron.

Nice movie. Very charming

what is the name of that melancolic tune they played in between?

@reinertl

3 жыл бұрын

I'm the dance leader for Leikarringen of Sons of Norway Lodge #1 of Sons of Norway in Seattle: the tune doesn't have a specific name, but we do a dance called "Krossedans med Seks" or "Sekskrossedans" (crossing dance for six) to that tune. There are versions of the dance for three, six, nine and twelve dancers, all done to the same tune. I believe the tune is very old, and judging by the form of the dance, it may also be old. It's one of my favorite dances because of the tune and the form of the dance. You can hear the tune as played by our fiddler, Bill Boyd here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/ep-Zpstvpb3IZbQ.html.

@kmhob

3 жыл бұрын

@@reinertl thank you for that information. These ref made me find the tune in Klara Semb collection of Norwegian folk dances, vol 3, nr 51. From what I can read it is a tune that originates from Brekke in the Sogn region. Thats far west among the fjords. Most of the old dance and folk tunes are avilable at the national library website www.nb.no/items/2a60ef66331d2f7869c5bfa3aa4ce499?page=24&searchText=Klara%20Semb

My paternal 2nd great-grandmother’s maiden name was Christianson (or sen).

My Relatives were involved in the 1862 uprising on 3 sides of my family history. One of the first 1/2 French/ Native American traders killed, A little girl, who was to become my great gran, survived hiding in a barn. And an German Great Uncle who arrived in St. Paul by boat on the day of the war and his wife cared for a traumatized little girl who saw her parents murdered. They went on to settle in the exact area of the uprising.

You may be happy to know also that there are large concentrations of Scandinavian Americans (myself included) living in the Rocky Mountain region in the American West, due to mass conversions to Mormonism in Denmark (primarily), Sweden, and Norway in the 19th century. Every second or third person you meet in central Utah is a Hansen/son, Larsen/son (my mother's name), Madsen/son, Oveson, etc.

@anonymousalcoholic3648

2 жыл бұрын

my great grandparents were mormons. they used to jokingly treaten my grandmother with "selling her to the gypsies", so im thinking of writing a ficticious book about the final battle taking place between mormons and roaming bands of gypsies

@torekristoffersen176

Жыл бұрын

Så visst!

@ScottJB

Жыл бұрын

@@torekristoffersen176 Kristoffersen/Christoffersen is actually a surname that I run into in Utah sometimes. Prominent Mormon Church leader (and former lawyer) Todd D Christoffersen is an example.

@torekristoffersen176

Жыл бұрын

@@ScottJB ja jeg bor i Utah nå. Enig

@ScottJB

Жыл бұрын

@@torekristoffersen176 Ah, det er fantasisk! Er du fra Norge?

Fantastic

these Americans are more into Norwegian culture than most norwegians (speaking as a norwegian myself)

Doesn't every Norwegian linage have distant relatives in Minnesota?(Joking kinda..)😛🤔😁

@1971irvin

3 жыл бұрын

My grandmother moved to Canada before the world war two...🇧🇻🇨🇦

@janhansen554

3 жыл бұрын

800 000 to 900 000 emigrate to usa in 1850 to 1900 ish, by a population of about 2 million in Norway, so yes, u r very right.. I have reltives in minnesota

@erikthorsen240

3 жыл бұрын

No. My grandparents emigrated to New York where my grandfather used his woodworking skills working at Steinway pianos along with his brother.

@hagalathekido

3 жыл бұрын

genetically all europeans and thus all emericans are distant relatives

@erikthorsen240

3 жыл бұрын

@@hagalathekido Well, no one is more than 22nd cousins to anyone. We all came from Africa, as far as we know.

So interesting. I'm on the very North-West tip of the US on the Pacific coast, and I guess 3rd generation. My 1st 2 years were in Mexico, and then we moved north and ended just south of Canada. Surrounded by Danes, Nederlanders(a ton, with all their churches), and Islanders. We were tight with the local tribes(Lummi, and Nooksack), and I got to experience Potlach and recitals of "Potlach laws" from the tribes to the north(Haida and T'lingket). The tribal cultures here have very similar values. Long houses, long ships, smoking Salmon for the winter, and such... When young I tried linking up with the local "Sons of Norway group", and it was so weird. Like a "time machine", whatever language we spoke in the family was a 100 years ago "20's Jazz hep-cat" lingo or something. Now snowboarding at Baker and wind/kite surfing the local area here feels like "home", kinda. People have told me that this area smells and looks just like Norway. That said, I still do not feel like I belong here.

What's the name of the song that starts at 04:20?

How do I find Scott P. Winner from this video? If this message finds him please message me. Keith Mitthun