Norman T. Olness reminiscences, 1961

Title

Identifier

2019/967

Date

1961

Description

Norman T. Olness boyhood memories. The following topics are covered/page reference:

Early accounts as told by grandparents (23)
Buffalo (24)
Diphtheria (25,37)
Cheating/swindling in real estate, livestock (24)
E.A. Hjelle (25)
Indians/Native Americans (26)
Wagon trains or "movers" and those that died (28, 37)
Corn husking contest (32)
Haugians (34, 52)
Norwegian folk and ghost tales/supernatural (34)
Wine making, wedding practices (34)
story of a boy sleeping/sex with his girlfriend (35)
Crossing the Atlantic Ocean/food dwindling (35)
Plow, yoke Oxen, flower and garden seeds as a wedding gift (36)
Homemade clothes (36)
Panther, diseases, crops, and farming equipment (38)
Log houses (40)
Quarantine (44)
Lightening striking house (45)
Halley's Comet (46)
Winter woodcutting (47)
Having to wear high-buttoned girl shoes to school (48)
Moccasins worn by Norwegians (49)
Gopher snaring/trapping (50)
Dancing and folk gaming (53)
Grave digging and stories associated (54)
Horses (55)

Olness compiled a Norwegian-English dictionary, created to teach his own children the Norwegian language. Olness stated, "the primary purpose of this compilation is to provide a dictionary that will be quick, easy, precise and representative. In particular to those Americans of Norwegian extraction who wished not only to learn the Norwegian language but, also are interested in Norwegian history and literature. ...included with it are dialects, variations, modern and English words which have been incorporated into the Norwegian vocabulary. Also included are some Norwegian-American coined words."

Formerly part of P539.

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