Word: coln
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...matter of fact, Professor Rolvaag did attempt a translation of his book and found it rather difficult to put the strength of it out in English. By chance, Mr. Lin coln Colcord of Minneapolis heard of this work. Also, Mr. Colcord did not know Professor Rolvaag but he went to Northfield and suggested to Rolvaag that they get together on this translation. Colcord does not know a word of Norwegian but he and Rolvaag worked a year and a half, Rolvaag reading his manuscripts and trans lating sentence by sentence, Colcord putting it into the English language with the result...