I-IV -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Opening of the SLE conference in Galway, August 29, 1992 -- Introduction -- I. PRE-COLUMBIAN CONTACTS -- A. OLD NORSE IN THE FAROES -- Old Norse in the Faroes (with special reference to palatalization) -- B. OLD NORSE IN SCOTLAND AND NORN IN SHETLAND -- Historical and linguistic evidence for Gall-Gaidheil and Norse in Western Scotland -- On the use of "be" as a perfective auxiliary in modern Shetland dialect: hybridization and syntactic change -- C. OLD NORSE IN IRELAND -- Old Norse in Ireland -- D. OLD NORSE IN ICELAND -- Language contact in Iceland: the evidence of names -- E. GREENLAND -- European contacts with Greenland as reflected in the place-names -- II. POST-COLUMBIAN CONTACTS -- A. SCANDINAVIAN CONTACTS - EMIGRATION HISTORY -- Swedish exodus - from Sillgatan in Gothenburg to America -- The Swedish Emigrant Institute and the documentation of the transatlantic emigration era -- Five decades of research on Swedish emigration to North America -- Β. SWEDISH- AMERICAN ENGLISH -- Linkers, fillers, tags and flags - code-switching of conjunctions and conversational signals among American Swedes -- C. SWEDISH - SPANISH IN ARGENTINA -- Immigrant Swedish in Misiones, Argentina - towards language loss -- D. NORWEGIAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH -- The Norwegian immigrants of the late 18th century and the problem of the so-called 'great melting pot' in America -- Scandinavian-American place-names as viewed from the Old World -- The position of Nynorsk in the Norwegian-American press -- Some phonological changes in a Norwegian dialect in America -- The gender of English nouns used in American Norwegian -- E. NORWEGIAN DIALECTS IN SPITSBERGEN -- Semi-migration in the Arctic - a theoretical perspective on the dialect strategies of children on Spitsbergen -- F. FINNISH - AMERICAN ENGLISH -- Retention and replacement of original Finnish words in American Finnish -- G. ENGLISH DIALECTS IN AMERICA -- English dialects transported -- H. SCOTS-GAELIC - AMERICAN ENGLISH -- Cape Breton - Western Isles: transatlantic resonance of language and culture -- Gaelic-influenced Scots in pre-revolutionary Maryland -- Ulster English as Janus: Language contact across the Irish Sea and across the North Atlantic -- I. DUTCH - AMERICAN ENGLISH -- American Dutch: general trends in its development -- J. GERMAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH -- The death of Texas German in Gillespie County -- K. CROATIAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH -- Sociolinguistic conditions for maintenance of a dialect: The case of the Konavle dialect in Watsonville, California -- L. ITALIAN - AMERICAN ENGLISH -- Language contact among North-American people of Italian origin -- Emigration from Southern Italy to the United States: Bilingualism and its linguistic effects on local dialects -- III. AFRICAN-EUROPEAN - AMERICAN CONTACTS -- A West African Creole language in an Atlantic perspective: the origins and present state of Krio -- Index -- Authors' addresses