Foreward by Guðni Th. Jóhannesson and Eliza Reid, President and First Lady of Iceland Introduction Moving a language between continents: Icelandic language communities 1870-1914 Icelanders and America: What is it to be Vestur-Íslendingur? Acculturation on their own terms: The social networks of political radicals among Icelandic immigrants in Canada in the early twentieth century The Barnason brothers in Nebraska: Two pioneer farmers Ralph E. Halldorson and the Great War Icelandic immigrants, modernity, and Winnipeg in Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran's "Hopes" Another emigrant ship crossing the Atlantic: The poetics of migration in the poetry of Undína and Stephan G. Stephansson The young Icelander grows up: Nationalism and ethnic identity in Jóhann Magnús Bjarnason's life and work Icelandic-Canadian oral lore: New life in a new land and how the women's tales may shed light on the classification of the Edda poems Raven tracks across the Prairies: Icelandic immigration and manuscript culture in the Canadian West World meanings in North American Icelandic: More North American or more Icelandic? Understanding complex sentences in a heritage language "And the dog is sleeping too": The use of the progressive in North American Icelandic Language and Identity: The case of North American Icelandic The Heritage Language Project: Impact and implications.