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Hulda Visen song, 1885
Manuscript of a romantic poem, sub-titled "Før Hjalmar han naade sit Fædreneland," (Before Hjalmar got to his Native Land). Carthage. Feb. 15, 1885. The Song of Hulda (own melody) and a 1982 translation by Karl Berner Schultz. -
Olga Wagbo local history, 1982
"Reconstructed History of Early Immigrants from Norway to East Jordan," a 47-page account of some 30 families who settled in Charlevoix County, Michigan, during the years 1880-1929. -
Erik Wahlgren article, 1980
The Norse Coin from Maine: Philology and Navigation, by an emeritus professor of the University of California, Los Angeles. It was published in "The Norwegian Numismatic Journal," March, 1980. -
Martin E. Waldeland papers, 1931-1933
Short stories, articles, poems, and correspondence of a Lutheran clergyman. Waldeland served in Iowa parishes, was the chairman of his synod's publicity and transportation bureaus, and the author of short stories.
Includes: Articles, stort stories, poems, correspondence, Luther League Address given at St. Olaf College, May 30, 1915, Publicity Bureau, NLCA, minutes, and transcription of Hans Nielsen Hauge books. -
Martinus Christian Waller family history, 1936
Autobiography by Rev. Martinus C. Waller (1866-1936), "The Farmer Boy Who Became a Preacher" (3 pg typescript, ca. 1930s). Emigrated from Biri, Norway in 1868 and settled near Trempealeau, Wisc. -
Ole C. Waloe papers, 1898-1932
Letters, certificates, and medals of a Norwegian-born army colonel Waloe immigrated to Wisconsin ca. 1891, served in the United States Army in Cuba and the Philippines (1896-1924). Appointed colonel and assistant chief of constabulary in 1917, and operated a cattle ranch in the Philippine Islands until 1931, when he retired to Los Angeles. (See "The Story of the Philippine Constabulary," Harold Hanne Elarth, editor (1949). -
Julius Oscar and Hilma Walstad family history, 2004
The Edited Journals of Julius Oscar Walstad (1869-1950). Sub-chapters include: boyhood memories of Decorah, Iowa (Native Americans/Indians, falling through ice resulting in pneumonia and treated with cod-liver oil); Nebraska (In 1878 the family moved to dugout near Bladen and later Riverton. Mentions fleas, dances, alcohol, sod schoolhouse, snake indugout); Riverton (moved to a house in 1881. Mentions: working in afurniture store, sexual relations: "Then while he [the owner] went home for breakfast and took a good long time at it and to chin his wife as they had lately been married, I had to stay and take care of the store", Mrs. Oney);Farmer's Creek (moved to in 1884. Mentions: drunkenness of father, homestead mortgage troubles, teaching Sunday school, preaching, tent meetings); Hastings (1900. Mentions trouble with uncles and alcohol/kegs of beer); Beginning of Preaching Ministry, Evangelist (1902-1924. Scandinavian Gospel Mission Work, married Hilma Latt in 1912). -
Scandinavian Hour radio show, 2007-2010
Eight CD's of Douglas Warne's "Scandinavian Hour." The Scandinavian Hour has been on the air with host Doug Warne each weekend since 1959. Scandinavian Community guests contribute to the program each week — airing music and guest comments from all the Nordic countries. -
Elise Wærenskjold papers, 1839-2010
From the Knut Gjerset papers on women and Norwegian American Encyclopedia.
Letters and other writings regarding Wilhelm and Elise Waerenskjold. A pastor's daughter, Elise lead a party emigrating to Texas between October 1846 and March 1847. The Waerenskjolds married in 1848, settling at Four Mile Prairie. Her letters and other writings serve as a primary source of information about the Norwegians who settled in Texas.
Also includes:
- Photocopies of letters from Elise Waerenskjold to Oscar Reierson, 1883, 1890
- Books edited by Charles H. Russell
- Light on the Prairie: New Writings of Elise Wærenskjold (Houston, TX: Shining Brightly Books, 2010)
- Undaunted A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2006).
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Knud Wefald papers, 1887-1998
Wefald was a Norwegian-born lumberman, poet, congressman, and Minnesota railroad and warehouse commissioner.
Includes:
- Two addresses, 1925 and 1933 "Wefald Family in America," by Nana Wefald Wilson "Family History of Knut Stork Wefald and His Wife Sarah Skre[?],"
- loose-leaf notebook Poems by Wefald Translations of Norwegian poets Extracts from the "Congressional Record" (68th and 69th) Copy of his "Dikt i Samling
- Selected Poems," Telemark, Norway, 1987
- Collection of clippings, many of which report on the speeches he made.