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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... Danes, and from Bergen to Copenhagen; around the turn of the sixteenth century, however, it was managed by a Bergen consortium. This trend culminated in 1619, when Christian IV chartered the Iceland, Faroe, and Northern Norway Company ...
... Dane who had served in the Bergen cathedral. Riber was the Faroes' first and only Lutheran bishop. In 1541 the king ordered a survey of Faroese church lands, and went on to appropriate two-thirds of them, perhaps in the following year ...
... Danes in 1590, four in 1620, and five in 1660 (0ssursson 1963). Thereafter, many were second-generation Faroese, sons following their fathers' calling. Of course the Faroese Reformation was no more simply an ecclesiastical event than ...
... Dane. For the period 1556-69, it was granted to the Copenhagen merchant (and the Faroes' bailiff) Anders Jude and his Hamburg colleague, Mads Lampe. But Faroese protested their management, and after another brief period of free trade it ...
... Danes continued in an exceedingly complex fashion in the next generations. Follerup's sons, for example, included ... Dane who served as priest of Vágar from 1641 to 1681. Oluf's son Rasmus succeeded him there from 1681 to 1702, while a ...
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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 |