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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... Eysturoy from 1642 to 1679 and also dean from 1675 to 1679, and of the Danish sister of Lucas Debes, who was South Streymoy's priest from 1652 to 1675 and dean from 1670 to 1675) married his Faroese successor, Søren Johannesen. One of ...
... Eysturoy from 1622 to 1640. We shall meet him more closely in a moment. A few priests, like Follerup, are badly remembered in legend; but Several priests and priests' sons, though they are little, if at all, remembered in legend ...
... Eysturoy and dean. As Zachariasen says, “this seems to sort badly with the Stóridómur,” but of course nothing was done about it (L. Zachariasen 1961:349). But these were exceptions, and not surprisingly by far the greatest number of ...
... Eysturoy farmer named Mikkjal. Yes, his “farm at Lamba” had 30 merkur, or pretty close to it, anyway: it actually had comprised 29 merkur until 1764, when it was divided in half; these halves were themselves halved in 1820-21 (Degn 1945 ...
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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 |