Omkring Fædrearven manuscript, 1922
- Title
- Omkring Fædrearven manuscript, 1922
- Identifier
- oer_manuscripts_05
- Date
- 1922
- Description
- This volume of essays was translated in 1998 under the title Concerning Our Heritage. Rølvaag divided this collection into three parrs, dealing respectively with heritage, literature, and the name change. Much of the material in the first section of the book is taken loosely from lectures he gave to students at St. Olaf and from essays in newspapers and magazines. The second section comes largely from a series of polemical newspaper articles defending Norwegian-American literature from a series of anonymous attacks, and the third section is based on a series of articles he wrote in a church publication where he was objecting to removing the word “Norwegian” from the name of the Norwegian Lutheran church in America, and also to the reduced use of the Norwegian language in church services. Concerning Our Heritage was aimed at Rølvaag’s fellow Norwegian Americans and was his attempt to convince them of the value of maintaining their own cultural, linguistic, and religious heritage and adding it to the mosaic that makes up the American society of which they are now a part.
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- Type
- Book
- Rights
- No Copyright - the United States
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- 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.
- Bibliographic Citation
- [Indicate the cited item here]. O.E. Rølvaag Papers. Norwegian American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota.
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Citation
Rølvaag, O. E. (Ole Edvart), 1876-1931, “Omkring Fædrearven manuscript, 1922,” Digital Collections, accessed October 17, 2026, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/digital-collections/items/show/7736.