Nordic diaspora explained

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

See main article: Swedish diaspora. Swedish diaspora communities include:

• Swedish Americans
• Swedish Argentines
• Swedish Australians
• Swedish Canadians
• Swedish Costa Ricans
• Ural Swedes (Russia)
• Gammalsvenskby (Ukraine)

Finnish diaspora

See main article: 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:

• 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

See main article: Greenlandic Inuit. Danish diaspora communities include:

• • • Danish Americans Greenlandic Americans
  • Faroese Americans
• Danish Argentine
• Danish Australians
• Danish Canadians
• Danish minority of Southern Schleswig (Germany)
• Danish people in Greenland
• Danish New Zealanders

Icelandic diaspora

See main article: Icelandic diaspora. Icelandic diaspora communities include:

• Icelandic Americans
• Icelandic Australians
• Icelandic Canadians

Norwegian diaspora

See main article: Norwegian diaspora. 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

• 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

Notes and References

1. Book: Heather, Peter. Empires and barbarians: the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe. 30 March 2011. 4 March 2010. Oxford University Press US. 978-0-19-973560-0. 497. 3 November 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231103162721/https://books.google.com/books?id=gbUlnaHlHS0C&pg=PA497#v=onepage&q&f=false. live.
2. Abrams . Lesley . 19 January 2012 . Diaspora and Identity in the Viking Age . Early Medieval Europe . 20 . 1 . 17–38 .
3. Web site: Hammill. Faye. Martha Ostenso, Literary History, and the Scandinavian Diaspora. ...the Scandinavian diaspora disrupts nationalist literary histories by crossing political and cultural boundaries between America and Canada..
   1. 196 (Spring 2008) Diasporic Women's Writing
   . Canadian Literature. 30 March 2011. 7 December 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20101207052936/http://canlit.ca/archives.php?issuenumber=192. live.
4. Book: Race, Nation, and Empire in American History. 978-0-8078-5828-8. 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.. 91. Campbell. James T.. 31 August 2009. ReadHowYouWant.com. 28 October 2020. 3 November 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231103162729/https://books.google.com/books?id=AH8fs98fKPMC&q=scandinavian+diaspora&pg=PA91#v=snippet&q=scandinavian%20diaspora&f=false. live.
5. Book: Lien, Marianne E. Marit Melhuus. Holding worlds together: ethnographies of knowing and belonging. 13. Berghahn Books. Lund's Scandinavian diaspora informants from the USA (Chapter 4) re-embed themselves through recounting their genealogies.. 1-84545-250-X. 28 October 2020. 3 November 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231103162731/https://books.google.com/books?id=nQ5siadToD4C&q=scandinavian+diaspora&pg=PA13#v=snippet&q=scandinavian%20diaspora&f=false. live.
6. Book: Karni, Michael G. . Finnish Diaspora: United States . 1981 . Multicultural History Society of Ontario .
7. Book: Karni, Michael G. . Finnish Diaspora: Canada, South America, Africa, Australia and Sweden . 1981 . Multicultural History Society of Ontario .
8. Book: Chad Muller . Chad Muller . Spring Grove: Minnesota's first Norwegian settlement . 2002 . . 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 ... . 0-7385-1949-9 .