The Viking Age in the Faroe Islands lasted from Grímur Kamban's conquest of the country around 825 until the death of Tróndur í Gøtu, the last Viking...
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The early details of the history of the Faroe Islands are unclear. It is possible that Brendan, an Irish monk, sailed past the islands during his North...
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evidence for whaling on the Faroe Islands dates back to the early days of Norse settlement (800–900 AD) during the Viking Age. After 999 AD, when Sigmundur...
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Tórshavn (redirect from Capital of the Faroe Islands)
lit. 'Thor's harbour'), usually locally referred to as simply Havn, is the capital and largest city of the Faroe Islands. It is located in the southern...
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The Faroe or Faeroe Islands (/ˈfɛəroʊ/ FAIR-oh), or simply the Faroes (Faroese: Føroyar, pronounced [ˈfœɹjaɹ] ; Danish: Færøerne [ˈfeɐ̯ˌøˀɐnə]), are an...
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The Church of the Faroe Islands (Faroese: Fólkakirkjan, lit. 'people's church'; Danish: Færøernes folkekirke), also known as the Faroese People's Church...
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Løgting (redirect from Parliament of the Faroe Islands)
þing has existed on the Faroe Islands for over a millennium and the Løgting was the highest authority on the islands in the Viking era. From 1274 to 1816...
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The culture of the Faroe Islands has its roots in the Nordic culture. The Faroe Islands were long isolated from the main cultural phases and movements...
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chieftain in the Faroe Islands, before they were taken over by Norway in 1035. Leivur's reign marked the beginning of the end of the Viking age, and the end...
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Grímur Kamban (category Viking explorers)
the Faroe Islands by way of Viking Ireland, and local tradition has it that he settled at Funningur in Eysturoy." It is said that he settled down in Funningur...
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woman during the Viking Age in the Faroe Islands Turid Dørumsgaard Varsi (born 1938), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party TURYID Tiurida Tubrid...
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longships, Vikings established Norse settlements and governments in the British Isles, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, and the Baltic coast...
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The Viking Age (about 800–1050 CE) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest...
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lasting and more established Norse settlements were formed in Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Russia, Ukraine, Great Britain, Ireland, Normandy and...
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Timeline of Faroese history (redirect from Timeline of the Faroe Islands)
political events in Iceland and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see history of the Faroe Islands. About 625 – It...
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List of Faroese people (redirect from List of artists from the Faroe Islands)
Joensen, in 1986 journeyed alone in a rowboat from the Faroe Islands to Copenhagen in Denmark, a distance of 900 nautical miles (1,700 km), the first and...
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Hoard (section Great Britain and the Channel Islands)
Faroe Islands (relating to the Viking age) Spillings Hoard, Sweden (relating to the Viking age) Sundveda Hoard, Sweden (relating to the Viking age) Asyut...
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Danish Realm (redirect from The unity of the Realm)
the two states. The Faroe Islands were settled by Norwegian Vikings in the 9th century, displacing Irish monks already there. Iceland was settled in the...
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Tróndur í Gøtu (category 10th-century Vikings)
Þrǫ́ndr í Gǫtu) (c. 945 – 1035) was a Viking Age chieftain in the Faroe Islands. He is remembered for his opposition to the importation of Christianity. Tróndur...
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Sandur Hoard (category History of the Faroe Islands)
countries the Faroers already traded in the 11th century. It is generally assumed the Viking Age ended on the Faroe Islands in 1035. In the following...
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navigate the open ocean. The Viking ships ranged from the Baltic Sea to far from the Scandinavian homelands, to Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland...
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Jóan Símun Edmundsson (category Faroe Islands men's international footballers)
signed for Viking Stavanger on 15 February 2012. Following his stint at Viking he returned to the Faroe Islands playing for AB and HB. In December 2014...
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The Faroe Islands National Museum (Faroese: Tjóðsavnið) is the national museum of the Faroe Islands, located in Tórshavn. The Faroe Islands National Museum...
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The Faroe Islands national handball team is the national handball team of Faroe Islands and is controlled by the Handball Federation of the Faroe Islands...
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Sandvík (category Populated places in the Faroe Islands)
Sandvig) is the northernmost village of the island of Suðuroy in the Faroe Islands. It is situated on the northern side of a shallow fjord. The village was...
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Naddodd (category 9th-century Vikings)
on the Faroe Islands after Grímur Kamban became the first to settle there around 825. Landnámabók, a medieval Icelandic manuscript, describes in considerable...
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Papar (redirect from Irish monks in Iceland)
came as a young man to the Faroe Islands by way of Viking Ireland, and local tradition then he settled at Funningur in Eysturoy. The 12th-century Historia...
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List of runestones (section Faroe Islands)
(Faroe Islands), dated to the Reformation period. Modern runestones (as imitations or forgeries of Viking Age runestones) began to be produced in the 19th...
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Syðrugøta (category Populated places in the Faroe Islands)
513. The famous Faroese singer Eivør Pálsdóttir was born here in 1983. Also Tróndur í Gøtu, the most famous Faroe Islander of the Viking Age in Faroese...
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