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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... Løgting. In addition, the islands were probably divided early on into districts, each of which had what was later called a “spring parliament” (värting). Our picture of Faroese society in these early, pagan days is unfortunately rather ...
... Løgting. At about the same time, the king assumed the privilege of confirming the election of the Løgting's foreman, the logmaður. One more official must be mentioned, though his post was not formally established until well after the ...
... Løgting sheriffs spring parliaments priests/priests districts (syslur) A and parishes lograpttumenn - appointed by bailiff | villages after ca. mid-sixteenth century Note: Non-Faroese are shown in boldface type. Arrows indicate, as the ...
... Løgting ceased to be a legislative body. Except for the land laws, Faroese law was the same as that on the continent, and the king was recognized as the final arbiter and giver of law for the Faroes. The Løgting's judicial independence ...
... Løgting complied with Frederik II's request that a compilation of late thirteenth-century Icelandic ecclesiastical law called the Stóridómur continue to be valid in the Faroes. Among other things, the Stóridómur set the bounds within ...
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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 |