Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I: Omnia Mea Mecum Porto: Literary History and Background of the Icelanders -- Introduction -- Medieval Iceland and the dynamics of immigration -- Old Icelandic poetry -- Old Icelandic prose --...
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I: Omnia Mea Mecum Porto: Literary History and Background of the Icelanders -- Introduction -- Medieval Iceland and the dynamics of immigration -- Old Icelandic poetry -- Old Icelandic prose -- Post-Medieval Icelandic literature -- The Reformation and its literary influences -- Religious poetry: Hallgrímur Pétursson -- Religious prose: Jón Vídalín -- Secular poetry: rímur -- Secular prose: folk tales -- Characteristics of Icelandic folk tales -- Creatures of the wilderness: huldufólk, trolls and outlaws -- II: The Search For Vínland the Good: Emigration and Settlement in the New World -- The nineteenth century: Romanticism and national revival -- The Romantic movement in Iceland -- The national situation -- Emigration and settlement in the New World -- Emigration -- The year in Ontario -- The founding of New Iceland -- The preservation of Icelandic culture and identity during the first decades -- III: "Without a poet you and yours / will disappear and leave no trace": Icelandic Immigrant Literature -- Introduction -- Western Icelandic poetry -- Káinn -- Stephan G. Stephansson -- Guttormur J. Guttormsson -- Western Icelandic Prose -- Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason -- Guðrún H. Finnsdóttir -- The move from Icelandic to English: Laura Goodman Salverson -- Literary pioneer or minor immigrant writer? -- Salverson and the Western Icelandic tradition -- Salverson and Canadian literature -- IV: "Your pen is yet a power in your hands": Icelandic-Canadian Literature in English -- Canadian and Icelandic-Canadian literature 1940-1970 -- Canadian poetry -- Canadian fiction -- Icelandic-Canadian literature -- Contemporary Icelandic-Canadian writing: Thematic and stylistic concerns -- The thematic role of ethnic heritage -- Style -- Theme and outlook -- Documentation -- Myth and myth-making in the New World.
""Creatures of the wilderness: huldufólk, trolls and outlaws""""II: The Search For VÃnland the Good: Emigration and Settlement in the New World""; ""The nineteenth century: Romanticism and national revival""; ""The Romantic movement in Iceland""; ""The national situation""; ""Emigration and settlement in the New World""; ""Emigration""; ""The year in Ontario""; ""The founding of New Iceland""; ""The preservation of Icelandic culture and identity during the first decades""; ""III: ""Without a poet you and yours / will disappear and leave no trace"": Icelandic Immigrant Literature""
""Introduction""""Western Icelandic poetry""; ""Káinn""; ""Stephan G. Stephansson""; ""Guttormur J. Guttormsson""; ""Western Icelandic Prose""; ""Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason""; ""Guðrún H. Finnsdóttir""; ""The move from Icelandic to English: Laura Goodman Salverson""; ""Literary pioneer or minor immigrant writer?""; ""Salverson and the Western Icelandic tradition""; ""Salverson and Canadian literature""; ""IV: ""Your pen is yet a power in your hands"": Icelandic-Canadian Literature in English""; ""Canadian and Icelandic-Canadian literature 1940-1970""; ""Canadian poetry""
""Canadian fiction""""Icelandic-Canadian literature""; ""Contemporary Icelandic-Canadian writing: Thematic and stylistic concerns""; ""The thematic role of ethnic heritage""; ""Style""; ""Theme and outlook""; ""Documentation""; ""Myth and myth-making in the New World""; ""The role of Norse mythology""; ""Mythical figures: The hero, the outcast and the trickster""; ""Other mythic themes: Fatalism and sacrifice""; ""Myths of time and place""; ""Story-telling and myth-making""; ""Concluding remarks""
""V: The Icelandic Tile in the Canadian Mosaic: Icelandic-Canadian Literature and Canadian Multiculturalism""""Multiculturalism in Canada""; ""The Icelandic Canadians as an ethnic group in Canada""; ""Icelandic-Canadian literature and the Canadian mosaic""; ""The Icelandic-Canadian Contribution""; ""Selected Bibliography of Western Icelandic Icelandic-Canadian Literature""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
