Norwegian Amundsen’S Northwest Passage Ship Gets Face-Lift American Story on Page 19 Volume 128, #5 • March 10, 2017 Est
the Inside this issue: NORWEGIAN Amundsen’s Northwest Passage ship gets face-lift american story on page 19 Volume 128, #5 • March 10, 2017 Est. May 17, 1889 • Formerly Norwegian American Weekly, Western Viking & Nordisk Tidende $3 USD Aasta Hansteen, feminist poet abroad In Norway I was «deserted, shrouded in loneliness, all the others were ‘we’ but not me. Here in freedom’s land, here I am blessed, here I too am ‘we.’ NANCY KLIMP » Daughters of Norway Sigrid Undset Lodge It was 1886 when Aasta Hansteen wrote those words. The quote refers to a significant time in her life, her nine years in America, where she had found a sisterhood. It is part of a small collection of poems that was unpub lished, called Arbeidsglæde (Joy of Work). As a feminist in Norway, Hansteen had felt isolated, unappreciated, and misunder stood. She decided to travel to America in April of 1880, as she understood that the struggle for women’s rights here was well underway. As her ship departed the Kristi ania (Oslo) harbor, she wrote, “My misery is over,” as feelings of liberation emerged. She eagerly anticipated observing the inspiring suffrage leaders about whom she had read, and she would spend her American years near them in Boston (six and a half years) and Chicago (two and a half years). In Norway, she had achieved many WHAT’S INSIDE? Nyheter / News 2-3 Hermed hylder jeg uten « Business forbehold våren som det eneste 4-5 effektive middel mot sne! » Opinion 6-7 – André Bjerke Sports 8-9 Research & Science 10 Books 11 Taste of Norway 12-13 Norway near you 14-15 Photo: Public Domain Travel 16-17 This portait of Aasta Hansteen, painted by Marie Nielsen Hauge in 1903, hangs in Drammen Museum.
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