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IS 310.2
Story of an Emigrant.
a very large extent of the same blood and ancestry as the
English people, and that the English language is .borrowed
to no small extent from the Scandinavian.
Americans often express astonishment at the ease and
correctness with which the Scandinavian immigrants acquire
the English language. A little study of philology will readily
account for it. If we take, for instance, the names of
household goods, domestic animals, and other things
appertaining to the common incidents of plain every-day life, we find
the English words almost identical with the Scandinavian
terms, only varying in the form of spelling or perhaps
pronunciation, as hose are apt to change with time and
locality. For example: English—ox, cow, swine, cat, hound, rat,
mouse, hen, goose, chicken; Swedish—oxe, ko, svin, katt,
hund, rotta, mus, hona, g&s, kyckling. Of implements:
English—wagon, plow, harrow, spade, axe, knife, kettle, pot,
pan, cup; Swedish—wagn, plog, harf, spada, yxa, knif,
kit-tel, potta, panna, kopp. Or the part of our own bodies,
such as: English—hair, skin, eyes, nose, ears, mouth, lips,
teeth, shoulders, arm, hand, finger, nail, foot, toe, etc.;
Swedish—h&r, skinn, ogon, nasa, 01*011, mun, lapp, tand,
skuldra, arm, hand, finger, nagel, fot, and t&. Or of the
occupations of the common people, such as: English—spin,
weave, cook, saw, sew; Swedish—spinna, vafva, koka,
sy, etc. In this conncction it may not be out of place to
quote one of England’s most eminent authors and scholars,
Edward Bulwer Lytton, who says:
" A magnificent race of men were those war sons of the old North, whom
our popular histories, so superficial in their accounts of this age, include
in the common name ol the ’ Danes.’
" They replungcd into barbarism the nations over which they swept; but
from the barbarism they reproduced the noblest clement of civilization.
Swede, Norwegian and Dane, differing in some minor points, when
closely examined, had yet one common character viewed at .a distance. They
had the same prodigious energy, the same passion for freedom, individual
and civil, the same splendid errors in the thirst for fame and the point 01
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