"The Viking Sword that Wasn't": In-Person Badger Talk in Stoughton, WI

Name: "The Viking Sword that Wasn't": In-Person Badger Talk in Stoughton, WI
Start: 2024-07-10T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Sons Of Norway Stoughton WI

Schedule

Wed Jul 10 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Sons Of Norway Stoughton WI | Stoughton, WI

This free, in-person event, hosted on July 10, 2024, at 7:00 PM by the Sons of Norway - Stoughton Mandt Lodge, is a part of the Monthly Lodge Meetings and is open to members of the Sons of Norway Mandt Lodge and the general public. No registration is necessary to attend.
In 1911, a sword was dug up in the prairie of Minnesota. Not long after, it was declared a Viking-Age sword. But in 2007, that all changed. This talk explores what happened and what it can tell us about Nordic-American life in the Upper Midwest.
Presenter Marcus Cederström earned his B.A. from the University of Oregon in Sports Business, History, and Scandinavian Studies and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a folklorist working in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at UW-Madison as the community curator of Nordic-American folklore for the “Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest” project. His research interests include immigration to the United States, identity formation, North American Indigenous communities, and sustainability.