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home search help worldguide ... Related Weblinks Faroe Islands Culture The Faroes do not have a huge cultural heritage. Faroese was long regarded as a peasant language and the written form was not standardised until the 1890s. Life was hard, and after the chores were done there was not a lot of time left to write novels or paint portraits. The earliest Faroese music would be considered bland by modern standards, and it was designed to accompany the Faroese chain dance and the , a body of late medieval ballads. There were no instruments on the islands, and simple and repetitive melodies were commonly sung in a minor key. Today, traditional dancing takes place mostly on special or festive occasions to help assert the islanders' unique identity. The chain dance was once popular all over Scandinavia, but has survived intact only in the Faroes. Faroese is a Germanic language derived from Old Norse, significantly influenced by Gaelic, and related closely to Icelandic and some Norwegian dialects. Thor was traditionally the main god in the Faroes. He was rowdy and slow moving as gods go, a champ of the common people, and he held the controls for thunder, wind, storms and natural disasters. He could also fend off malevolent outsiders. Two other important gods were the twins Freyr and Freyja, who served as god and goddess of fertility and sexuality. The islands today have officially shrugged off the Norse pantheon and belong to the Protestant Lutheran Church. If you're interested in traditional Faroese food, you can probably forget about fresh green vegetables and start getting used to meat and potatoes. Meat is the basis of every meal, and one of the most popular treats is

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Faroe - Culture Climate You're unlikely to get a sunburn in the Faroes, where rain occurs on an average of 280 days a year and average temperatures range from 40° F ( 4° C) in January to 52° ( 11° C) in July. When to visit Summer is the best time to visit the Faroes, since the weather is more likely to be pleasant and the islands' small tourist industry doesn't gear up for visitors until May. What to bring A water-resistant jacket or rain parka, sweater, and sturdy shoes are the most vital items in a Faroes travel wardrobe. A tweed hat is more useful than a baseball cap or straw boater, and a folding umbrella is also worth bringing along. Don't worry about mapsyou can buy what you need in Tórshavn. Reaching the Faroes Smyril Line has weekly sailings to Tórshavn from Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and the Shetland Islands. Air service is available from Copenhagen and Billund (Denmark), Reykjavik (Iceland), and Glasgow-Aberdeen (Scotland). See the "Transportation" links in this article for more information. Some guidebooks mention ferries from Scrabster or Aberdeen. Unfortunately, these are no longer in serviceat least, not at the time of this writing.

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Updated: Welcome to the Faroe Islands Tourist Guide 2003... Home Facts Islands History ... Links USEFUL LINKS Tourist Board Weather Atlantic Airways Smyril Line ... Exchange Rates BIRDWATCHERS PARADISE Binoculars and sunglasses should be part of the outfit of any visitor to the Faroe Islands. Sunglasses are needed when the brilliant sun bursts forth from the clouds; binoculars to enjoy the brilliant spectacle of birds soaring along the sea cliffs. During the long days of summer, the many cliffs on the northern and western coasts of the islands teem with huge flocks of birds. Cold arctic currents merge with the warm Gulf Stream in the waters off the Faroes, resulting in a particularly rich food environment for the nesting birds. (More) In 2000 it was 100 years since the birth of William Heinesen, the world-famous Faroese author (More) THE ISLANDS Take a deep breath! Fill your lungs! Let them open all their folds and leaves and cavities... (More) ANGLING I have gone fishing in Alaska for king salmon, on the Kamchatka peninsula in eastern Russia... (More) Click above to check out the weather on Faroe Islands...

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home search help worldguide ... Related Weblinks Faroe Islands Environment Slightly smaller than greater London, the 18 islands of the Faroes lie in the north-eastern Atlantic about 400km (248mi) south-east of Iceland and 280km (174mi) north of Scotland. In the north are a group of rugged, rib-like islands that offer spectacular scenery, but most of the Faroes' population lives on Streymoy and Eysturoy in the heart of the island group. The islands are the eroded remnants of a volcanic mid-Atlantic continent that rose after North America, Greenland and Europe went their separate ways. Other parts of this long-disappeared continent include the Westfjords of Iceland, County Antrim of Northern Ireland, parts of southern Greenland and bits of Scotland. During the Great Ice Age, all of the Faroes were blanketed with ice, and when the icecap finally melted its remnants gouged out the cirques, valleys, sounds and fjords so typical of the islands today. Although the Faroes are home to several introduced pest species such as rats, mice and rabbits, the bird life is what leaves you gobsmacked. The bird population is probably the densest in the world, thanks to the profusion of plankton and fish. Forty-nine species of bird breed regularly on the islands, and another 30 do so from time to time. Among them are puffins, which are netted and eaten in large numbers, guillemots, fulmars, great skuas, razorbills, gannets, cormorants and kittiwakes. Inland, there are great colonies of eider ducks, golden plovers, rock doves and oystercatchers. Two hundred more species visit the islands occasionally. Other land dwellers include sheep (of which there are nearly twice as many as people) and cattle.

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Updated: Welcome to the Faroe Islands Tourist Guide 2003... Home Facts Islands History ... Links USEFUL LINKS Tourist Board Weather Atlantic Airways Smyril Line ... Exchange Rates The magical musician In 2000 it was 100 years since the birth of William Heinesen, the world-famous Faroese author, and the whole year was one long commemorative celebration in his honour. Tarira dancing in a red Tarira is cast in bronze Tarira is cast in bronze, but she is human and delightful. She is already Tórshavn's "Little Mermaid", apart from the fact that there is nothing bashful or sad about her. On the contrary she stands there naked, with arms outstretched and fingers spread out and is probably telling one of William Heinesen's wildest stories. She is joy itself as she stands there on her stone. An odd stone, by the way. On the one side a picture is carved in thick lines; it is the young man with the violin, and on the other side the stone is hollow, almost like the back of an elf girl. From a distance you can see that this hollow forms a dark silhouette. To those who knew him there seems something familiar about it, and now you can see that it is William Heinesen's own profile that is carved into the stone and that Tarira is actually dancing out of his forehead. Tarira stands not very far from the Art Gallery, where some of William Heinesen's pictures can be seen. From there it is not far to the Nordic House, which played an active part in the centenary celebrations. On the birthday a big exhibition, "Hjemme på jorden" (At home on the Earth) was opened in the Nordic House as the next stage in the extensive William Heinesen programme. Here the Faroese and Danish National Libraries had filled all of the beautiful building with his particular world. Mainly with manuscripts, books and pictures from his long life and work, but also with a special section with his original works of art, the whole framed with large, ceiling-high pictures from old Tórshavn.

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Denmark - Greenland and the Faroe Islands - Greenland Denmark Greenland and the Faroe Islands 7.1 Greenland [Main menu] [Previous paragraph] [Next paragraph] Introduction ... Photo Art and Culture [top] Eskimo art continues to show signs of the close relationship between form and function. Artefacts were an integral part of everyday life and also of religious life, and art as understood in western Europe did not appear until late. The Greenlandic word for art, erqumitsuliaq, literally means "something odd, which has been constructed" and was only coined after the first meeting with the Europeans. The interpretation of Nature, Man, animals, legends and myth reflected the Eskimo world, in which everything had an inua and was considered to be alive. The old adage that animals will only let themselves be killed by a beautiful weapon clearly illustrates this belief. Decorations are widely used; as reinforcements for the seams of garments, as skeletal decoration on figures and masks, and as women's facial tattoos. Today they are only used decoratively, particularly by artists from East Greenland. The sealers, who carved their own tools, found it just as natural to carve small figures. Sculpture was therefore the dominant art form, also because of the raw materials available (bone and soapstone). The artistic expression was generally realistic, grotesque or more stylised. catechists (teachers and assistant priests), now emerged from the shadow of anonymity, among them Israil Gormansen and Aron of Kangeq, who amongst other things painted a large series of water-colours. In 1905, the shaman Mitsuarnianga was persuaded to create two assemblage-like sculptures representing the secret and evil magic being known as a

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Denmark - Greenland and the Faroe Islands - The Faroes Denmark Greenland and the Faroe Islands 7.2 The Faroes [Main menu] [Previous paragraph] [Next paragraph] Geography ... Photo Art and Culture [top] Far into the 19th century, the Faroese culture was mainly kept alive through oral traditions. Following the Reformation, the spiritual culture was dominated by the Danish language: The hymns of the Church and the home had Danish lyrics but were sung to Faroese music. This music has now been committed to paper and has inspired a number of present-day composers, singers and choirs. Secular culture has always been dominated by the Faroese language. The oral tradition has conserved ballads, legends and fairy tales, riddles and proverbs. The best known is a ballad cycle about Sigurd Fafnersbane and his kin. This is also the title of the first book to be published in Faroese in 1822. The ballads were recorded during the course of the 19th century and published in (1951-72). V.U. Hammershaimb created the first version of written Faroese in 1846. Faroese poetry was born in 1876 when students in Copenhagen wrote the first patriotic songs. J.H.O. Djurhuus's visionary poems in Yrkingar (Poems, 1914) demonstrated that Faroese was sufficiently flexible for aesthetic use.

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