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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_11743 p0584_11744 p0584_11745 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: Dear wife! I have just gone to bed, and am not particularly tired. The time was a quarter to 12, then for you it is just a quarter to 11, and therefore you haven’t even begun to think about going to bed yet. Yes, then I think it would be alright to talk a little bit together. Today (Wednesday) it has been ever so cold. Was down at the library to get a book loaned, and I was glad to have my coat with me. The book I did not get, and therefore I had to send the card to Tulla. The library does not open before 2 o’clock in the afternoon, and some days not before 4! What do you think about that in a city of 110,000! From one who is well-known I heard that it is just a lousy library, and so they can very well have it closed. Today I have done a little for myself, and I have worked a little for father Gabriel. We get along well. He does not give in at first, but is very sensible. No wonder his semitic feelings are how they are. Here you can see ever so many apartments following: “Only Gentiles Wanted”. No wonder it is boiling in him. It would do it to me as well. Otherwise he takes it sensibly. He is considerably more uncompromising. All in all they are extraordinary people, both of them. I hear that Dorothy and the children are coming down here in a while. Here is spacious enough, and now we have gotten a very good cook in the house! Breakfast is: fruit, pancakes, or a cooked dish (cereal of one kind or another) and coffee. Very simple. Lunch we eat around 2 o’clock; it is almost always dry food, bread, butter and delicacies. Dinner we eat around 7 o’clock, and it is always lazy; but nothing lavish. N. as a rule now eats more than I do. I try to suit myself. His appetite seems to be as full as mine. Overall we live as quietly and beautifully as decent people can. I have decided to pay them $100 per month. If they are at peace with that, I will not complain. That is more than reasonable. More I will not offer them, and I am almost sure that they are not thinking to take more, maybe not even that much either. But that day and that sorrow! Feel here about as when I was at home. Yesterday, because the cold weather was brewing, I had a great deal of pain, just like I would have felt if I was at home! (Thursday morning) Uff, this is terrible! If it had been minus 30 outside at your place, it couldn't have been colder! Now we have two electric heaters going, and just the same, the house is almost like an ice cottage! A freeze over all of Florida yesterday night. I wonder how it is up at your place? I am sitting by the window and writing this. Watching the school children come by from school. In the forenoon they have gotten a free day because of the cold. No, you should not send the winter underclothes back. This will only last for a moment- not over a day’s time. Yes, now I have to go work. Adieu then! The old man 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 January 31 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 January 31 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