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(Ole Edvart), 1876-1931 Description An account of the resource <div class="element-text"> <p><span style="font-family:'-apple-system', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">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 </span><em style="font-family:'-apple-system', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">Giants in the Earth</em><span style="font-family:'-apple-system', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> (1927) and </span><em style="font-family:'-apple-system', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;">Peder Victorious</em><span style="font-family:'-apple-system', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> (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.</span></p> <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>. <p><b>Funding:</b></p> <p><span>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.</span></p> 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_08565 p0584_08566 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. P0584 O.E. Rølvaag Papers (P0584: Andrew Berdahl Correspondence) O.E. Rølvaag Papers (P0584) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Berdahl, Anders J., 1848-1940 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1929 September 8 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) Title A name given to the resource Letter from Andrew Berdahl to the Ole Rølvaag family, 1929 September 8 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. Description An account of the resource 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. Andrew Berdahl's letter to the Ole Rølvaag family. <br /><strong>Translation: <br /></strong><br /><p><span style="font-weight:400;">Sioux Falls, Sunday A.M. Sept. 8th 1929</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Dear Mr. Rølvaag and family,</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">I assume that you all have now returned to your home in Northfield, so it is not out of the way if I sent some words from us. I have heard exceedingly little from you all this summer, but likewise you have not gotten many letters from here either. Today it is raining incessantly, so I cannot go out, (was in the church last P.M.) and so I said to myself that today you have to write, but then I find a lot that is interesting to read, for example Lutheranen, for this week there is a lot to reach, and then we have just gotten a new book </span><span style="font-weight:400;">The Norwegian Pioneer’s History in Minnehaha Co.</span><span style="font-weight:400;"> that is very interesting to me, and suddenly it is almost evening, but now some words. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">The aforementioned story has been considered to get out there the past 3 years, and some few had certainly toiled with this task of gathering materials that could be of interest and use for coming relatives, but we do not have many that are skilled at writing, so the book is headed by poor language in many cases, and many printing errors. I did not know that there would be as many as there are.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">But enough about that, in some days I will send one to you all </span><span style="font-weight:400;">so you yourselves can judge its worth. At the back of the book is a whole picture gallery, where Jennie especially will recognize many. The biographies are not so bad, but there are not as many as there should be.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Now a little from home. Tilda traveled to Chicago again on Thursday after having been home around 1 year. Ida has not taken up any steady work yet, so she is mostly at home. Christina manages the house upkeep, and is working on the preservation of fruit for winter use. Of the one apple tree we have here we got a number of apples. It was so loaded with apples that the branches hung all the way down to the lawn. We also got some plums here this year. There are also some plums and grapes on the farm, but of the apples there is not a single one on the farm that can be used because of a kind of rot. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">It was a hasty Wednesday of weather from the strong heat last Sunday and Monday to close to freezing on Wednesday. Since Friday it has rained a lot of the time until now and the cold is remaining so that we must fire up the ovens.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Augustana College began its business last week. John says that he really likes the new President Preus. I was be present at the school’s opening on Thursday and was quite impressed with his leadership and speech.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Here is an affectionate greeting to you all</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">From Father and Grandfather Berdahl</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight:400;">Now I hope to hear from some of you about how you have been doing throughout the summer, and how soon we can wait for the translated book.</span></p> Text