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Landsforbundet for Norsk Luthersk Ungdom i America. Born in Nordfjordeid,
Norway, Hjelmeseth was editor of Landsforbundet’s publication Norsk Ungdom. He
was also associated with other Norwegian-American publications.
523. HJEMKOMST (SHIP). HISTORY, 1980-1984. 1 folder. P 1262.
Material concerning the Viking ship which sailed across the Atlantic, arriving in
Bergen, Norway, July 19, 1982. The ship was built by Robert Asp in an old potato
warehouse in Hawley, Minnesota. Asp died before it was finished, but his family
readied the ship for sailing. The ship is now housed at the Heritage Society’s
Museum at Moorhead, Minnesota.
The file includes a Minneapolis Tribune Picture Section and clippings, some of
which concern a replica of the Hopperstad stave church in Vik, Norway, located at
the Heritage-Hjemkomst Interpretive Center, and the annual Scandinavian
Hjemkomst festival held in Fargo-Moorhead.
524. HJORTAAS, HANS CHRISTIAN GREY (1883-1961). PAPERS, 1933. 3 items. P 160.
Letters and a clipping regarding Norsk Slektshistorisk Forening, a Norwegian
genealogical association, several articles, and a book review that that ran in
Minneapolis Tidende. Hjortaas was on the editorial staff of that paper and was a
student of genealogy.
525. HODNEFIELD, JACOB (1877-1960). TRANSLATIONS. 4 folders. P 1151.
English versions of Henrik Ibsen’s poetic dramas Brand and Peer Gynt, by a
Norwegian-American librarian and bibliographer; a translation of H. R. Holand’s
chapter 54 of De Norske Settlementer i Amerika, which Hodnefield titled “The
Stavanger and Hordaland Colony in Central Iowa”; a manuscript titled “Iowa Life,
1875-1925: The Story of Norwegian Immigrants and their Descendants”; a copy of
Annals of Iowa, July 1955, which contains Hodnefield’s “The Story County Colony of
1855”; and an offprint of “Minnesota as seen by Travelers: A Danish Visitor of the
Seventies,” a three-part article that appeared in Minnesota History (June-December,
1929).
Hodnefield’s translation of Oley Nelson’s En kort historie af det første norske settlement i
Story og Polk counties, Iowa, 1855-1905, is in the Oley Nelson Papers, P 258.
Hodnefield served on the staffs of the Hill Reference Library, St. Paul, and of the
Minnesota State Historical Society. He compiled the section “Some Recent
Publications” for the NAHA Studies and Records, volumes 5-18.
526. HOEN, PETER L. (1838-1939). AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 1932. 2 items. P 1274.
“My Life,” Dyre Dyresen’s translation (64 typescript pages, 1984) of an account
written by an emigrant from Nordrehaug in Ringerike. After coming to Chicago in
1871 he became a Seventh Day Adventist and spent the rest of his life as a layman
working among the Scandinavians for this denomination.
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