Keywords
Rasmus B. Nielsen, Denmark, journey, translation
Abstract
Many years ago, possibly when I was seventeen years of age, my grandfather, Rasmus B. Nielsen (affectionately called R.B.) asked me if I would write the account of his experiences as a young man emigrating from Denmark in 1878, with Dannebrog, Nebraska as his destination and future home. I said I would. We had several sessions at the kitchen table in his home near Nysted by Dannebrog, Nebraska. He sat in his captain's chair, and I in a straight-backed kitchen chair. He dictated in Danish while I jotted down what he said. I filed these notes and for some years I feared that I had lost them. In a recent move I found them. The pages are now yellowed, but the writing is legible. The following pages are a translation of those notes, which tell of one episode in an immigrant's life - an episode experienced by many who came to settle in this great land.
Recommended Citation
Jensen, Harold
(1988)
"R. B. Nielsen's Journey From Aarhus to Dannebrog,"
The Bridge: Vol. 11:
No.
2, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol11/iss2/7
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