An official announcement was later made announcing the occupation and ordering a nighttime blackout in Tórshavn and neighbouring Argir, the censorship of post and telegraphy and the prohibition of the use of motor vehicles during the night without a permit.
Guðrið Hansdóttir grew up in Argir near Tórshavn, she is the daughter of Louisa and Hans Carl Hansen.
Sólrún Michelsen (born Midjord in Tórshavn in 1948), grew up in Argir, is a Faroese writer and poet.
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In 1994 she published her debut book which she named Argjafrensar, people who come from Argir (now a part of Tórshavn) are often as a joke referred to as Argjafrensar, which means male cats from Argir.
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Her parents moved to Argir, her father came from the small village Hov on Suðuroy and her mother came from Norðskáli on Eysturoy.
Already now the proximate suburbs of Tórshavn house a third of the population of Tórshavn, and within the next couple of decades the population in the proximate suburbs (especially Argir in the south and Hoyvík in the north) will exceed the population of the original town of Tórshavn (all settlement within the 1866 boundaries of the municipality).