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. Scrutinising the Viking Age through the lens of settlement offers a distinct perspective, highlighting their cultural profile distinct from their predatory reputation.
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.
Swedish diaspora
Main article: Swedish diasporaSwedish diaspora communities include:
- Swedish Americans
- Swedish Argentines
- Swedish Australians
- Swedish Canadians
- Swedish Costa Ricans
- Ural Swedes (Russia)
- Gammalsvenskby (Ukraine)
Finnish diaspora
Main article: Finnish diasporaPeople emigrated to the United States, Canada, Ghana, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Brazil and Argentina. 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
Main articles: Danes § diaspora, and Greenlandic InuitDanish 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 [sv]
Icelandic diaspora
Main article: Icelandic diasporaIcelandic diaspora communities include:
Norwegian diaspora
Main article: Norwegian diasporaNorwegian 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.
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
References
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- 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 ...
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