Ole Edvart R%C3%B8lvaag

Ole Edvart Rlvaag was a NorwegianAmerican novelist and professor who became well known for his writings regarding the Norwegian American immigrant experience. Ole Rolvaag is most frequently associated with Giants in the Earth, his awardwinning, epic novel of Norwegian immigrant homesteaders in Dakota Territory.

Rlvg was born in the familys cottage in a small fishing village on the island of Dnna, in the far southern district of Nordland county, Norway. Dnna, one of the largest islands on the northern coast of Norway, is situated about five miles from the Arctic Circle. He was born with the name Ole Edvart Pedersen, one of seven children of Peder Benjamin Jakobsen and Ellerine Pedersdatter Vaag. The settlement where he was born had no official name, but was referred to as Rlvaag, the name of a narrow bay on the northwestern point of the island where the fishermen kept their boats. Atyears of age Rlvaag joined his father and brothers in the Lofoten fishing grounds. Rlvaag lived there until he wasyears of age, and the impressions he received during the days of his childhood and his young manhood endured with him throughout his life.

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