The Bridge Volume 29 Number 1 Article 6 2006 Nineteenth-Century Emigration from Sollerod, A Rural Township in North Zealand (Sjaelland) Niels Peter Stilling Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge Part of the European History Commons, European Languages and Societies Commons, and the Regional Sociology Commons Recommended Citation Stilling, Niels Peter (2006) "Nineteenth-Century Emigration from Sollerod, A Rural Township in North Zealand (Sjaelland)," The Bridge: Vol. 29 : No. 1 , Article 6. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol29/iss1/6 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Bridge by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. Nineteenth-Century Emigration from S0ller0d, A Rural Township in North Zealand (Sjrelland) 1 by Niels Peter Stilling Translated from the Danish and edited by J. R. Christianson Introduction In 1985, Erik Helmer Pedersen wrote that "the history of Danish emigration to America can be seen, in very broad terms, as the story of how a small part of the population tore itself away from the national community in order to build a new existence in foreign lands. Those who write the history of the emigrants must, on the one hand, see them as a minority in relation to the Danish whole, and, on the other hand, must reconstruct that little part of the history of American immigration which concerns the Danes."2 This article attempts to do just that for emigration from the township of S0ller0d, north of Copenhagen.