Hjalmar Rued Holand (October 20, 1872 - August 6, 1963) was an American historian and author. He was the author of a number of books and numerous articles principally dealing with the history of the Upper Midwest and with Norwegian-American immigration.[1]
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Hjalmar Holand was born in Høland, Akershus, Norway. Holand immigrated to America with his parents in 1884. He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin in 1898, earning his MA the following year. Holand was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Anthropology & Cultural Studies during 1950.[2]
Holand lived most of his life on a farm near Ephraim, Wisconsin. Holand was an early advocate of the now widely recognized realization that Vikings visited the New World in voyages which pre-dated Christopher Columbus. Holand also made an effort to proving the authenticity of the Kensington Stone together with and other rune stones and Viking relics found throughout North America.[3][4]
Holland wrote a two volume history of Door County, Wisconsin, which was published in 1917. His recital of the Indian war myth that created the term Death's Door is the traditional rendition, although most of the details have since been discredited. Death's Door or Porte des Morts is the water passage between the Door County peninsula and the islands to the north, connecting Green Bay to Lake Michigan.[5]
Holand is most frequently associated with his two volume history of Norwegian-American immigration. Holand spent many years collecting the stories as he traveled to various Norwegian-American settlements in the Upper Midwest. The results were De Norske Settlements Historie released in 1908 and Den Siste Folkevandring Sagastubber Fra Nybyggerlivet I Amerika published in 1930. Both were written and published in Norwegian. These works have subsequently been translated and published in the English language. The first was a partial translation released in 1978 and the second a complete translation released during 2006.[6]
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