Ironically, increasing numbers of young people saw emigration as necessary to maintain their societyвЂ™s way of life. This growth was unsustainable NorwayвЂ™s fickle growing conditions, short summers, and recently depleted fish stocks threatened to cause widespread famine. Improved farming techniques led to food surpluses that doubled the countryвЂ™s population between 17. Norwegians may have older connections to North America than any other non-Scandinavian country in Europe, but they did not begin emigrating in earnest until the second half of the nineteenth century, due to tensions brought on by economic shifts, a growing population, and individual drives for status and autonomy. Their settlements, however, were short-lived Icelandic sagas and Inuit accounts share similar stories of conflict between EriksonвЂ™s colonists and proto-Inuit natives. The first Norwegians in North America arrived in Newfoundland with Leif Erikson around 1000 AD. Internal religious and social conflicts shaped the groupвЂ™s experience in its new home as much as MinnesotaвЂ™s climate and geography. Driven to emigrate by overpopulation, unfulfilled nationalism, and a fractured economy, hundreds of thousands of Norwegians came to Minnesota between 18, making the Twin Cities the unofficial capital of Norwegian America.

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