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Evjen, John O. Scandinavian Immigrants in New York 1630–1674 (Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1972) Flom, George T. A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States: From the Earliest Beginning Down to the Year 1848 (Iowa City, 1909) Hoobler, Dorothy, and Thomas Hoobler. The Scandinavian American Family Album (Oxford University Press ...
Leif Erikson reached North America via Norse settlements in Greenland around the year 1000. Norse settlers from Greenland founded the settlement of L'Anse aux Meadows in Vinland, in what is now Newfoundland, Canada. [2] These settlers failed to establish a permanent settlement because of conflicts with indigenous people and within the Norse ...
Norway, with its 1920 population pegged at 2,691,855, saw 693,450 Norwegians setting sail for American shores, constituting 32.4% of the Scandinavian influx. Denmark, home to 3,268,907 people in 1920, chipped in with 300,008 immigrants, forming 14.1% of the Scandinavian immigration to the US across that century.
Distribution of Danish Americans according to the 2000 census. Danish Americans (Danish: Dansk-amerikanere) are Americans who have ancestral roots originated fully or partially from Denmark. There are approximately 1,300,000 Americans of Danish origin or descent. [2] [3] Most Danes who came to the United States after 1865 did so for economic ...
Distribution of Swedish Americans in 2000 by county, according to the United States Census. In the 2000 U.S. Census, about four million Americans claimed to have Swedish roots. [66] Minnesota remains by a wide margin the state with the most inhabitants of Swedish descent—9.6% of the population as of 2005. [67]
Scandinavian settlement in Greenland declined over the years and the last written record is a marriage recorded in 1408, although the Norwegian claims to the land remained. Following the establishment of an independent Sweden , Norway and Denmark were reorganized into a polity now known as Denmark–Norway in 1536/1537 and the nominal Norwegian ...
Many of those who remained in North America stayed in Alaska as miners, while others resettled in Washington and the Midwest, where large Scandinavian populations existed. [14] Samuel Balto , a Sámi explorer who had temporarily moved to Alaska during this era, sent a letter detailing his experience to Fridtjof Nansen , which read in part,
American people of Scandinavian descent (9 C, 48 P) C. Scandinavian-American culture (6 C, 9 P) D. Danish diaspora in the United States (5 C, 5 P) F.