Lars and Dagny Nygaard,immigrants from Norway, were interviewed for the New Land, New Lives: Oral History Collection at Pacific Lutheran University.
Dagny Nygaard, an immigrant from Norway, was interviewed for the New Land, New Lives: Oral History Collection at Pacific Lutheran University.
Carroll Hinderlie's translation draft of the S⌀e Book.
Correspondence records relating to Carroll Hinderlie's translation project of the S⌀e Book.
The biography, autobiography, and photocopies of personal documents of immigrant Syver Svenson Rodning, born in 1869 in Hallingdal, Norway. He came to America in 1894, studied at Augsburg Seminary for three years, moved to North Dakota in 1901, and married Bergit Bjella in 1907. Elected to office in 1921, Syver was Register of Deeds in Minnewaukan County for fourteen years. He passed away in 1937. This collection consists of two folders of biographical information on Syver Swenson Rodning. One folder contains a biography of Syver Swenson Rodning written in 1987 by his son Richard Rodning. The biography includes family information as well as copies of documents: letters, maps, pictures, emigrant rates of passage, graduation certificate, record of naturalization, homestead certificate, marriage license for Syver and Bergit, product and grocery advertisements, Syver’s campaign poster, and poems written by Syver. There is also information on Syver’s brothers and sisters. The other folder contains a story written by Syver Swenson Rodning about his childhood, adolescence, and immigration translated in 1993 by Richard Rodning. The original was published in “Skandinaven", dated 1938 and 1939.
