The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of HistoryUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2014. júl. 15. - 280 oldal Stranded 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. |
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... Bergen, the Danish Marshall Fund, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Criticism and encouragement of several sorts have been offered by, among others, Jeremy Boissevain, William A. Christian, Jr., Gail Filion, Davydd ...
... Bergen. Except perhaps for Hilarius, who held office in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the Faroes' bishops were all foreigners, although the priesthood may have been largely Faroese (0ssursson 1963; P.M. Rasmussen ...
... Bergen, etc.; after 1619 after ca. 1035 thereafter, bishops of Bergen later, Copenhagen (to ca. 1632) and Sjælland W merchant(s) bailiff logmaður bishop after ca. 1273 after ca. 1035 \ ca. 1100–1557; thereafter, dean/dean winter bailiff ...
... Bergen. The sagas tell us that Bergen was founded in 1070 14 NORSE SETTLEMENT TO DANISH MONOPOLY.
... Bergen had evidently been a fishing village of no particular importance. But as a commercial center, it held magnificent potential. The harbor itself was large and defensible. Well sheltered at the end of a modest fjord, it was easily ...
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Toward a National Culture in an Odd Danish Province | 65 |
Specters and Illusions | 173 |
Governance and Governors | 199 |
Notes | 205 |
References | 231 |
Index | 249 |