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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... Frederik I's death, a group of Bergen merchants briefly gained control. The Faroes' logmaður, Andras Guttormsson, wrote to them how glad he was that “this land, the Faroes, shall no longer be under Hamburgers or any other foreigners ...
... Frederik II proclaimed that for the betterment of “our land Faroe” and the wellbeing of his subjects, “when any of our Crown's farmers and servants in the Faroes receives a leasehold of any farm from our 32 NORSE SETTLEMENT TO DANISH ...
... Frederik III made his treasurer Christoffer von Gabel the Faroes' overlord for life. The year before, probably at Gabel's urging and certainly against the wishes of the Løgting, Frederik had installed a foreigner, Baltzer Jacobsen, as ...
... Frederik III's death, in 1670. He lived on until 1673, but his son Frederik effectively became the Faroes' ruler. Defending his father's “great consideration for the country” before the royal commission charged with investigating the ...
... Frederik von Gabel died in 1708. The following year, the Faroe trade became a royal monopoly, which endured until the introduction of free trade, in 1856. Faroese might still justly complain that the goods they received were shoddy and ...
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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 |