NORWEGIANS ABROAD After the Norsemen of the Viking period emi- grated to Iceland and thereupon settled in great numbers in Ireland and Great Britain, also in France (Normandy) and possibly in other coun- tries, there was little if any emigration from Norway for many centuries. It was in 1825 that emigration from Norway to the U.S.A. commenced on a big scale. Since that time it is presumed that roughly one million Norwegians have emigrated and settled in foreign parts. The vast majority of them have gone to the U.S.A. It is estimated that _ there are now living in that country about two million people of direct Norwegian descent, including also the direct descendants of the oldest Norwegian settlers. NORWEGIANS IN THE U.S.A. IN 1930 According to the official American census of 1930 there were 1,100,098 Norwegians living in the U.S.A. Of these 347,852 were born in Norway; the remainder were born in the U.S.A. of parents born in Norway. The Norwegian population in the U.S.A. is distributed as follows over the various geographical areas: 203