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2 unusual facts about Faroese


Lóðurr

The main argument for this is that the gods Odin, Hœnir and Loki occur as a trio in Haustlöng, in the prose prologue to Reginsmál and also in the Loka Táttur a Faroese ballad which is a rare example of the occurrence of Norse gods in folklore.

Páll Klettskarð

Páll Klettskarð (born 17 May 1990) is Faroese striker playing for KÍ Klaksvík and the Faroe Islands national team.


Astrid Andreasen

Astrid Jóhanna Andreasen (born 1948 in Vestmanna, Faroe Islands) is a Faroese textile and graphical artist, marine researcher and postage stamp designer.

Atlantic Airways Flight 670

According to the Faroese newspaper Dimmalætting, the aircraft was 20 years old, and was the first one purchased by Atlantic Airways in 1988.

Balzer Jacobsen

This period of Faroese history is known in Faroese as Gablatíðin, and was difficult due to the trade monopoly and wishes from Copenhagen about the crown's absolute control of the fiefdom.

Beinisvørð

Janus Djurhuus (born 1881 in Tórshavn, died 1948) uses it as a symbol of Faroese independence in "Heimferð Nólsoyar Páls".

Boys in a Band

Through 2006 the band managed to become one of the most popular live acts in the Faroes, and despite never having released a record, this secured them a nomination in the annual Planet Awards, a local Faroese award show, which is sponsored by the daily paper Sosialurin.

Bye Bye Bluebird

Bye Bye Bluebird is a 1999 Danish-Faroese comedy film directed by Katrin Ottarsdóttir and starring Hildigunn Eyðfinsdóttir and Sigri Mitra Gaïni.

Christian Mouritsen

Christian signed for Valur in November 2010 along with two team mates from the Faroese national team, Jónas Þór Næs and Pól Jóhannus Justinussen.

Christian Restorff Mouritsen (born 3 December 1988) is a Faroese footballer who currently plays for HB Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands.

Danish phonology

Danish is a Scandinavian language related closely to Swedish and Norwegian, and more distantly to Icelandic and Faroese as well as to the other Germanic languages.

Dimmalætting

The paper's name comes from Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, the very creator of the modern orthography of Faroese.

Faroese Cultural Prize

2011 – Kristian Blak Danish/Faroese composer, musician and owner of TUTL record company

Faroese language conflict

Jákup Dahl, who later became the Provost, was opposed to the administration's ruling and refused to teach in Danish; from then on he taught in Faroese.

--That's not a summary. The claim is not found in the main text, nor is its veracity obvious from it.-->, the gradual supersession of Danish by the Faroese language resulted less from the political activity of the Sjálvstyri than as a result of the extraordinary achievements of the Bible translator Jákup Dahl and Faroese writers such as J.H.O. Djurhuus, Hans Andrias Djurhuus, Heðin Brú, and Jóannes Patursson.

Faroese newspapers

Dimmalætting (Faroese for "Dawn") is the oldest and largest newspaper of the Faroe Islands and is based in Tórshavn.

Fróði Benjaminsen

Fróði Benjaminsen (born 14 December 1977) is a Faroese international footballer who plays professionally as a defender for HB Tórshavn.

Hans Pauli Olsen

His work is to be found not only in art galleries but in many towns in the Faroes, especially in the Faroese capital Tórshavn.

Hendrik Rubeksen

Hendrik Rubeksen (born 1 November 1983) is an Faroese international footballer who plays club football for HB Tórshavn, as a defender.

Hov, Faroe Islands

According to the Faroese Sagas and local tradition, the first Viking settler on Suðuroy established a farm in Hov, which is said to be named after his pagan hof.

Janus Djurhuus

Djurhuus said that his "poetic baptism" came in school, when he heard Jákup Dahl (later a provost and Bible translator and author of the first school grammar of the Faroese language) declaim Jóannes Patursson's Nú er tann stundin komin til handa (Now is the hour come for acting), the anthem of the Christmas Meeting.

Janus Kamban

Janus Kamban (10 September 1913 in Tórshavn - 2 May 2009) was a Faroese sculptor and last living representative from the "first generation" of professional artists in the Faroe Islands.

His first monumental work was Móðurmálið (mother tongue), made in 1948 from local basalt, as an anniversary memorial for V U Hammershaimb, 1846, creator of the Faroese written language.

Jens Hansen

Jens Marni Hansen (born 1974), Faroese singer, songwriter, composer and musician

Jens Kristian Hansen

He started and played most of his career at Faroese club B36 and also played for Danish side Randers Freja and in Scotland for Ayr United, where he teamed up shortly alongside compatriot Jens Martin Knudsen.

Jens Oliver Lisberg

While a law student in Copenhagen, he devised the flag in 1919 with two other Faroese students, Janus Øssursson from Tórshavn and Paul Dahl from Vágur.

Jóannes Lamhauge

In summer 2007, along with fellow artist Heiðrik á Heygum, Jóannes curated and organized the largest Faroese annual art exhibit (Ólavsøkuframsýningin) at the Faroese national art Museum, which was titled "Slóarblóð".

Jutlandic dialect

The short form, without breaking, is also found in Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic.

Kalsoy

In old Faroese folklore it was believed that on Twelfth Night the seals came out of the sea, stripped off their seal-skins and became human beings, dancing on the shore.

Languages of Denmark

Faroese is similar to Icelandic, and also the Old Norse language spoken in the Scandinavian area more than a millennium ago.

Marianna Debes Dahl

Marianna Debes Dahl (24 November 1947) is a Faroese writer, født 1947 in Vestmanna, grew up in Tórshavn.

North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission

The Agreement came into force on 7 July 1992 and was itself the product of a Memorandum of Understanding signed in Tromsø in 1990 between the Norwegian and Icelandic governments and the Greenland and Faroese home rule governments.

Pól Thorsteinsson

At the end of his career Pól Thorsteinsson played with VB/Sumba, who won the Faroese 1. division; in 2010 they changed their name to FC Suðuroy, and the team will be playing in the best division Vodafonedeildin, but Pól Thorsteinsson decided to end his football career at the end of the 2009 season.

Pól Thorsteinsson (born 17 November 1973 in Vágur, Suðuroy) is a former Faroese football player, who has been playing football for Faroese and Icelandic football clubs and the national Faroe Islands team.

Saltangará

The name is derived from three words: angar comes from the Old Norse angr which means a fjord or bay; á means a stream; and salt has the same meaning in Faroese, Icelandic and English.

Sámal Joensen-Mikines

Apart from Listaskálin in Tórshavn, where a great permanent exhibition is, paintings can be seen in the Faroese Parliament as well in many banks and savings banks all over the Faroes.

Símun Samuelsen

Símun Samuelsen (born 21 May 1985 in Vágur) is a Faroese football striker currently playing for HB Tórshavn after playing in Iceland for some years for Keflavik as a right or left winger but can also play as a second striker.

Skol, Vikings

Skol (written "skål" in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish and "skál" in Faroese and Icelandic or "skaal" in transliteration of any of those languages) is the Danish/Norwegian/Swedish word for "cheers," or "good health," a salute or a toast, as to an admired person or group.

Sólrún Michelsen

Sólrún Michelsen (born Midjord in Tórshavn in 1948), grew up in Argir, is a Faroese writer and poet.

Sonni Nattestad

Sonni Ragnar Nattestad (born 5 August 1994) is a Faroese professional footballer who plays for FC Midtjylland and the Faroe Islands national team as a defender.

Steinbjørn B. Jacobsen

Steinbjørn B. Jacobsen's daughter Eyð B. Jacobsen sang the songs, which were recorded and released by Tutl, a Faroese record label.

Torquil

Scandinavian variants of the Torkel include: the Norwegian and Swedish Torkil, Thorkel; the Norwegian Torkjell; the Faroese Torkil; and the Danish Torkil, Torkild.

Tróndur Bogason

He was an active member of the first Faroese rap band MC-Hár, which plays rap and rock music in Faroese language.

Tróndur Patursson

Tróndur Patursson (born in Kirkjubøur on March 1, 1944) is a Faroese painter, sculptor, glass artist and adventurer.

Zacharias Heinesen

Zacharias Heinesen (borne 1936 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese landscape painter.


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