Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Höskuldur Þráinsson, and Úlfar Bragason, eds. Icelandic Heritage in North America

Questions of heritage and identity are current for many North American readers in the twenty-first century.Icelandic Heritage in North America is a collection edited by Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Höskuldur Þráinsson, and Úlfar Bragason, all three of whom are professors emeriti at the University of Iceland who have dedicated much of their long careers to scholarship on the topic, the former two as linguists and the latter as a literary historian.Icelandic Heritage in North America is an expanded English translation of the Icelandic-language Sigurtunga: Vesturíslenskt mál og menning, published by Háskólaútgáfan in 2018.Three new chapters have been added (Birna Bjarnarsdóttir's, Katelin Parsons', and Laura Moquin and Kirsten Wolf's).A few others have been omitted or substantially adapted, such as Matthew Whelpton's chapter, which now deals more broadly with word meanings in North American Icelandic whereas his chapter in Sigurtunga, co-authored with Þórhalla Guðmundsdóttir Beck, focused more narrowly on colour terms.The