No Nation Is an Island: language, culture and national identity in the Faroe Islands by
This study follows the process of nation-building in a tiny nation -- the Faroe Islands, a cluster of 18 rocky islands in the North Atlantic. Originally settled by Vikings and governed by Norway, then by Denmark, and occupied by British forces during World War II, the Faroes gained a measure of home rule in 1948. Since then, Faroese politics have been doctrinated by the struggle for emancipation from the Danish cultural hegemony, through the establishment of cultural and education institutions on the islands, and through the promotion of the Faroese language in place of Danish. As the author shows, the national identity has developed in interaction with an outside world often perceived as hostile and threatening by the islanders, and in this process, certain national symbols have played a key role as boundary markers. Apart from language, the practice of pilot whale hunting has served as an important focus of national identity, and international criticism of whaling in general has only served to intensify the Faroese feeling of unity and opposition to an outside world which does not understand them.
Right to National Self-Determination: the Faroe Islands and Greenland by
What are the Faroese and the Greenlanders? Are they peoples in their own right, indigenous peoples or Danish minorities? And what is their status under international law? Do they have the right to national self-determination? And if so, what does this right include? This volume describes the constitutional history of the Faroes and Greenland, it analyses the current international status of the two countries and compares it to countries in similar situations, and looks at how Denmark has administered the sovereignty of its dependencies. It thus sheds new light on a constitutional arrangement that by some is described as, democratic, creative and imaginative, and by others is deemed colonial. But the book also deals with the status of non-sovereign polities and the right to self-determination in general, as well as with the current attitude of the UN towards such matters. It thus offers insights which can be of value for other countries, struggling with the issue, as well as scholars working in this field.
The Faroe Islands: interpretations of history by
tranded in a stormy corner of the North Atlantic midway between Norway and Iceland, the Faroe Islands are part of'the unknown Western Europe'—a region of recent economic development and subnational peoples facing uncertain futures. This book tells the remarkable story of the Faroes'cultural survival since their Viking settlement in the early ninth century.At first an unruly little republic, the islands soon became tributary to Norway, dwindled into a Danish-Norwegian mercantilist fiefdom, and in 1816 were made a Danish province. Today, however, they are an internally self-governing Danish dependency, with a prosperous export fishery and a rich intellectual life carried out in the local language, Faroese.Jonathan Wylie, an anthropologist who has done extensive field work in the Faroes, creates here a vivid picture of everyday life and affairs of state over the centuries, using sources ranging from folkloric texts to parliamentary minutes and from census data to travelers'tales. He argues that the Faroes'long economic stagnation preserved an archaic way of life that was seriously threatened by their economic renaissance in the nineteenth century, especially as this was accompanied by a closer political incorporation into Denmark.The Faroese accommodated increasingly profound social change by selectively restating their literary and historical heritage. Their success depended on domesticating a Danish ideology glorifying'folkish'ways and so claiming a nationality separate from Denmark's. The book concludes by comparing the Faroes'nationality-without-nationhood to the contrasting situations of their closest neighbors, Iceland and Shetland.The Faroe Islands is an important contribution to Scandinavian as well as regional and ethnic studies and to the growing literature combining the insights and techniques of anthropology and history. Engagingly written and richly illustrated, it will also appeal to scholars in other fields and to anyone intrigued by the lands and peoples of the North.
Warrener's Beastie by
In this magnificent modern rendering of a classic Norse myth, award-winning writer William Trotter transports the reader to faraway Vardinoy in the exotic Faeroe Islands, the remote Scandinavian locale that has bewitched Allen Warrener since his first and only visit there twenty years before. Now middle-aged, Allen decides that to revitalize his wearisome existence he must return to Vardinoy, the island that has haunted and inspired him for most of his life — and so wanders unwittingly into circumstances far more sinister, and potentially far more dangerous, than he ever could have supposed.
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A self-governing nation under the sovereignty of Denmark, the Faroe Islands are located halfway between Iceland and Norway in the Northeast Atlantic. A population of just over 48,000 inhabits the archipelago of 18 mountainous islands, with 40% of the population living in the capital, Tórshavn. The language of the Faroe Islands is Faroese, a Nordic language derived from the language of the Norsemen who settled the islands 1200 years ago. For more on the people, environment, arts, culture, economy and government of the Faroe Islands, visit The Official Gateway to the Faroe Islands.
Gásadalur. Vágar, Faroe Islands. CC by Stig Nygaard. Original image here.
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Under Southern Stars by
The present generation of writers in the Faroe Islands have increasingly in the last decade chosen to write in Faroese rather than Danish. Burgeoning political independence has stimulated a vigorous intellectual and artistic confidence.
The lost musicians (Library of Scandinavian Literature, Volume 12) by
The lost musicians
Heinesen, William, 1900-1991.
Faroese short stories (Library of Scandinavian Literature, Volume 16) by
Faroese short stories
Brønner, Hedin.
Modern Scandinavian poetry: the panorama of poetry, 1900-1975 in Kalâtdlit-nunat (Greenland), Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Saame Poetry, Norway, Sweden, and Finland by
Modern Scandinavian poetry : the panorama of poetry, 1900-1975 in Kalâtdlit-nunat (Greenland), Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Saame Poetry, Norway, Sweden, and Finland
Allwood, Martin Samuel, 1916-1999.
Three Faroese Novelists: An Appreciation of Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen, William Heinesen, Heđin Brú by
Three Faroese novelists; an appreciation of Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen, William Heinesen, Heðin Brú
Brønner, Hedin.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_the_Faroe_Islands
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