Diary of Agnes Matthilde Adalheide Grandjean Aagaard

This file contains the private diary of Agnes Aagaard, who immigrated to the Westman Islands in Iceland as a young bride with her Danish husband, the district commissioner, Michael Marius Aagaard (1839-1898). Her diary is among the oldest women’s diaries preserved in Iceland, which she wrote in Danish. It describes her life as an upper-class immigrant woman and the emotional experience of migration to an isolated community where she could communicate with very few other women.

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Original source name : Dagbók Agnesar Matthilde Adalheide Grandjean Aagaards
English translation : Diary of Agnes Matthilde Adalheide Grandjean Aagaard
Creator : personal fonds
Document- type 1 : diary/memoir
Reference number : Héraðsskjalasafn Vestmannaeyja M-73
Language(s) : Danish
Geographical coverage : Iceland
Time range : 19thc.
Year(s) : 1874–1891
Theme 1 : experience of migration
Link to the item in the catalogue : Partial text available online in Jóhann Gunnar Ólafsson's translation. [https://heimaslod.is/index.php/S%C3%B6gur_og_sagnir_%C3%BAr_Vestmannaeyjum/%C3%9Ar_dagb%C3%B3karbl%C3%B6%C3%B0um_Agnesar_Aagaard,_s%C3%BDslumannsfr%C3%BAar_%C3%AD_Vestmannaeyjum]
Publication(s) : Jóhann Gunnar Ólafsson, “Úr dagbókarblöðum Agnesar Aagaards, sýslumannsfrúar í Vestmannaeyjum, ” Sögur og sagnir úr Vestmannaeyjum, 2. ed. (Hafnarfjörður: Skuggsjá, 1966)

Archive name : Héraðsskjalasafn Vestmannaeyja
Archive name (English) : Regional Archives of the Westman Islands
Archive address : Safnahús Vestmannaeyja, Ráðhúströð, 900 Vestmannaeyja, Iceland
City : Westman Islands
Country : Iceland
Official website and institutional resources : http://safnahus.vestmannaeyjar.is/page/heradsskjalasafn

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