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(Ole Edvart), 1876-1931 Description An account of the resource <div class="element-text"> Ole Edvart Rølvaag was born on April 22, 1876, in Dønna, Norway, and immigrated to the United States in 1896, working as a farmhand in South Dakota before earning a B.A. and M.A. from St. Olaf College, with studies at the University of Christiania in between. From 1906 to 1931, he taught Norwegian language and literature at St. Olaf and wrote novels, essays, and poems depicting the Norwegian-American immigrant experience, including the acclaimed Giants in the Earth (1927) and Peder Victorious (1929). He helped preserve Norwegian-American culture by co-founding the Society for Norwegian Language and Culture and the Norwegian-American Historical Association, and in 1926 he was knighted by King Haakon VII of Norway. <div class="flex flex-col text-sm pb-25"> <div class="text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)"> <div class="[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn"> <div class="z-0 flex min-h-[46px] justify-start"></div> <div class="mt-3 w-full empty:hidden"> <div class="text-center"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pointer-events-none h-px w-px absolute bottom-0"></div> </div> The catalog record for the O.E. Rølvaag Papers can be found online <a href="https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/11038" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>. Funding: Funding to digitize a portion of the O.E. Rølvaag papers provided to the Norwegian-American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context p0584_11777 p0584_11778 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. P0584 O.E. Rølvaag Papers (P0584: Jennie Berdahl Correspondence) O.E. Rølvaag Papers (P0584) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rølvaag, O. E. (Ole Edvart), 1876-1931 Description An account of the resource Translation: Thursday Dear Jennie! Here comes the latest. This I will send tomorrow with air mail. Take note of when you receive it, so we can see if it goes faster that way. You should get it at the latest Monday afternoon. Attach this one to the other and give it to Alma when you have read everything. I have suffered hard lately, and don’t feel so well. But now I will rest until I get more translations from Ager. Then it carries on again. This evening I am invited to have dinner with Professor Loe. It was him that I wrote to Tulla about, that wanted to have me hold a talk here next year. It was $72.00 before I had to go out with “income tax”. I have just sent the check. That one I’ve paid from here, so don’t count it in your accounts. It will be a little over $100, then, that I am paying this year. Awful with these taxes! The young Newburgers are crazy enough about the old people that they bought a house down here. I both understand it and hear it. Good that I can wash my hands. I neither discouraged them nor convinced them. But the old people have done good shopping, and the young people should hold their tongues. That’s what I think. They should not disturb the happiness of the two old people. Mrs. N. has always wanted a home, and now she has gotten it. Yes, yes, that’s that. N. sent his autobiography to Harper’s Magazine and got it back. He has again rewritten it, and now wants to send it to The Mercury. Now he has gotten a very lovely review, but I doubt that it will suit any periodical. There is quite a lot of racial feelings in it, and there should be as well, but it can be that for that reason it will be refused. I am currently looking in Ager’s book. On page 4 you’ll find my piece on Sinclair Lewis. Have sent Carl Sandburg a “marked copy”. Today I got a letter from the editor. He says they have made an excerpt of my piece, and have sent it to the Chicago Daily News. There is always excitement of some kind! Yes, now I can get my standing on all these weeks- answered letters I have lying around. Here there are many, so many that I have enough to handle a few days. Now live so well! The old man P.S. I am enclosing a letter from Miss Sigurd Boe. It will interest you. It was her that sent that program about “Giants”. O.E. Jennie Marie Berdahl was born on June 1, 1879 in Minnehaha County, South Dakota to Andrew James and Karen Oline (Otterness) Berdahl. Jennie was born in a sod hut before South Dakota received statehood. She attended Augustana Academy in Canton, S.D. and was a county school teacher. Jennie Berdahl married Ole Rølvaag in 1908 and lived in Northfield, MN. Together they had four children: Olaf Arnljot (1909-1915) Ella Valborg Tweet (1910-2003) Karl Fritjof (1913-1990) Paul Gunnar (1915-1920). Funding to digitize the O.E. Rølvaag Papers was provided to the Norwegian American Historical Association through the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, a component of the Minnesota Clean Water, Land and Legacy constitutional amendment, ratified by Minnesota voters in 2008. Ole Rølvaag's letter to Jennie Rølvaag. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1931 March 11 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource No Copyright - the United States http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Letters (correspondence) Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Rølvaag, Jennie Marie Berdahl Title A name given to the resource Letter from Ole Rølvaag to Jennie Rølvaag, 1931 March 11 Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. Recommended practice is to include sufficient bibliographic detail to identify the resource as unambiguously as possible. [Indicate the cited item here]. O.E. Rølvaag Papers. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota. Text