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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... Church was violently opposed.” At any rate, the cathedral was never finished. Still unroofed, it is now one of the Faroes' principal tourist attractions. The exact nature of the ties between the Faroes and the crown in the eleventh and ...
... church” (L. Zachariasen 1961:332). The earliest indication of a recording secretary dates from 1584. The post was officially established in Norway in 1591, probably somewhat later in the Faroes. In 1634 the sorinskrivari, as he came to ...
... Church, through the early seventeenth century. best men, that such laws shall be valid here as. king of Norway, ca. 1035-1380; thereafter of Denmark/Norway archbishop (e.g., Iceland Company) (feudal lord) of Nidaros, ca. 1100-1537 ...
... church. How long the Faroes remained in this subordinate status is unclear, but we find that in 1412 they once again had their own logmaður (Jakobsen 1907:xxii). All in all, then, the system was as follows in the late Middle Ages (see ...
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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 |