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Hello from Torshavn the capital of the Faroe Islands. My friend John is going to give us an introduction to the Faroese Language. Basically it's a mix of old west Norse spoken in the middle ages mixed with Irish or Gaelic.
Faroese Language
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Here is a list of the words he translated:
1. Alphabet
2. Hello
3. Goodbye
4. Please
5. Thank you
6. How are you?
7. Where are you from?
8. How much does this cost?
9. 1 - 10
10. Monday - Sunday
11. Months of the Year
12. Man
13. Women
14. Child
15. Family
16. Food
17. Water
18. Beer
19. Wine
20. Restaurant
21. Welcome to the Faroe Islands
That was a quick intro to the Faroe Language. Have you heard this language before? Or do you speak Faroe? Let me know in the comments below!
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@Davidsbeenhere 7 лет назад

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@fmeinhardsson 7 лет назад

we don't have c in our alphabet

@teamkj6240 6 лет назад

AM Are from faros Island

@williamhutchinson4238 4 года назад

@jimi4906 3 года назад

I’m fascinated with the Faroe Islands and plan to travel there when this madness ends ( Writing this in 2020 ) I’m looking at learning a new language Norwegian or Danish. What language is similar to Faroese. Thanks for any advice.

@user-ip8dg5uv5q 3 года назад

@@jimi4906 Icelandic.

@Jack_Ragnarsson 3 года назад

It's like hes speaking a Scandinavian language in an Irish accent. Super cool!!

@FrozenMermaid666 7 месяцев назад

Faroese / Gothic / Norse / Greenlandic Norse / East Norse and Breton / Manx / Cornish and Pretarolo / Guernsey / Sardinian / Aranese / Friulian / Occitan / Gallo etc need to be added to Google translate and to all those apps such as Duolingo, and more ppl should teach them on yt because it’s not easy to find resources and yt videos to learn vocab and grammar etc, so I started learning them by memorizing lyrics!

@FrozenMermaid666 7 месяцев назад

By the way, my current levels are... - intermediate level in Old Norse / Icelandic / Welsh - writer level in English + native speaker level in Spanish - upper advanced level in Dutch + advanced level in Norwegian - mid intermediate level in German / Swedish / Portuguese / French / Italian - beginner level in Breton / Hungarian / Gothic / Latin / Faroese / Galician / Danish / Slovene - total beginner in Cornish / Manx / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Aranese / Elfdalian / Gallo / Limburgish / Occitan / Luxembourgish / Catalan / East Norse / Ripuarian / Swiss German / Alemanic / Austrian German / PlatDeitsch / Greenlandic Norse / Friulian / Pretarolo / Sardinian / Neapolitan / Sicilian / Venetian / Esperanto / Walloon / Ladin / Guernsey / Norn / Burgundian / West Frisian / North Frisian / East Frisian / Yiddish / Afrikaans / Finnish / Latvian / Estonian etc (and the other languages based on Dutch / German / Norwegian / Italian / French that are referred to as ‘dialects’ but are usually a different language with different spelling etc) (I highly recommend learning Dutch / Icelandic + Norse + Faroese / Norwegian as they are so magical, as pretty / refined / poetic as English - all other Germanic and the other pretty languages on my list are also gorgeous, so they are all a great option!)

@amanwithaplaninavan 6 месяцев назад

@FrozenMermaid666 man who gives a shit?

@CarpetHater Месяц назад

@@FrozenMermaid666 most of those are dead languages and have very very few writen records, so no, not all of these. however, breton, cornish, sardinian and faroese should be on google translate, especially since they are alive and still in use, i would love a faroese course on duolingo.

@dan74695 17 дней назад

It sounds very similar to northern and western Norwegian. Northern Norwegian and Faroese both came from western Norway. Icelandic did too.

@MrVaageHoivik 6 лет назад

I'm Norwegian and I understood basically everything.

@1946FreddieMercury 6 лет назад

My taughts exactly, especially the months are pretty much identical, just sound like they have a heavy accent.

@rice8 6 лет назад

same here (i'm a swede)

@SamuelJamalPope 6 лет назад

Same here (English bit can understand Norwegian)

@carthag 5 лет назад

ya the swadesh words are usually easy to understand (what a surprise!). im surprised that this asshole went to the faroe islands just to get a guy to say a bunch of words on camera (and also get fucked up or whatever else he spends his time on).

@krunchski9852 5 лет назад

hvordan har du det -Norskt hvussu gongur - Føroyskt Kanska.

@brandarheinsson2877 6 лет назад

the faroese alphabet goes "A Á B D Ð E F G H I Í J K L M N O Ó P R S T U Ú V Y Ý Æ Ø Ei Ey Oy" - not A B C etc...

@eagletsnupper7876 4 года назад

"Ay ay bee dee dee ee eff jee aytch eye eye jay kay ell em en oh oh pee arr ess tee eu eu vee why why ayee ohh ayee ayee oi!" - An American

@hanusalogv3789 4 года назад

Brandar Heðinsson yes I live there and ur right lol

@elsiedjurhuus 4 года назад

@@hanusalogv3789 u right i live in leirvík

@volund6280 4 года назад

How is the life in Faroes ?

@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen 4 года назад

@@eagletsnupper7876 Well, you got pronunciation of the last three right :D

@crunchygaming1561 6 лет назад

It sounds like when a englishman tries to talk Swedish

@zarty1065 6 лет назад

true

@martinpetersson4350 5 лет назад

Haha actually does!

@juliapetersson1 4 года назад

Basically yes

@dan74695 2 года назад

Sounds more like Norwegian.

@Gkvhkbt 2 года назад

True...native speaker here.

@SheikMMO 6 лет назад

im from sweden and i have an easier time to understand most of what he's saying than i do understand danish

@Tryambakam108 6 лет назад

"Please take the potatoes out of your mouth and speak again."

@ReverendPop 5 лет назад

Ha ha ha nobody understand Danish

@saxhaug 4 года назад

Not even the danes understand Danish.

@Casper-hp6yq 4 года назад

It is a little ironic, because swedish, norwegian, icelandic, and faroese, comes mostly from Denmark, yes I do know that Denmark got it from germany.

@cius96 4 года назад

@@Casper-hp6yq actually all the germanic languages come from proto-germanic, which was spoken in the area between Denmark and southern Sweden. So nope, Denmark didn't get it from Germany but it's the other way around, some germanic tribes moved to the south towards Germany (which back then didn't wxist obiouvsly). And Proto-Norse was the first germanic language to evolve from proto-germanic (together with Gothic, which at the very beginning was written with runes aswell, before Wulfila created the gothic alphabet). Old high german appeared 600 years later, when Gothic was extinct and proto norse already evolved into old norse, which was already divided in eastern and western.

@arnijonsson8651 7 лет назад

Lots of love from Iceland( your north-Atlantic island brothers)

@jfm.1 3 года назад

Im a native english speaker, and i’ve been learning swedish/norwegian for a few months and I could understand almost everything

@johndrama5053 9 месяцев назад

Our languages stems from the same proto-germanic language so we have an easier time figureing it out. 👊😁

@charlesmichaelschmitt6412 3 года назад

Wow! I am American from N.J. and surprisingly find this language so far to sound calming and it's tonality beautiful, I also lived in Germany for 20 years and speak Hochdeutsch and know old English.

@Arthurian. Год назад

Old English, ay? How did you learn it? I had a teacher that spoke very rough old English

@aleksanderh.5407 Год назад

Much of Scandinavia has "singing" dialects

@queensabina9983 4 месяца назад

OMG love how it sounds it is so close to swedish, but still you can hear the icelandic in Farose

@silje8711 5 лет назад

I'm from northern norway and I have to laugh because the pronunciation sounds just like my grandma with the r's especially.

@dan74695 2 года назад

Ja, det læt som breid nordnorsk.

@AbbeRustMojo 6 лет назад

really cool language! I'm swedish and it sounds familier in a way but still very different

@kamillastaunsbjerg8322 6 лет назад

AbbeAlbin Yea same in Danish

@playplaygamer1483 6 лет назад

cool i talk faroe ish and i talk danish

@OLFGaming 6 лет назад

Din Mor

@niklashansen7342 6 лет назад

Og din far

@haardkaar 6 лет назад

I spoke to a Faroese couple in Spain, they tried their best "danish". I didn't realise they were from the Faroe Islands. Sounded like whispering Swedish. The vowel sounds are very close to standard Swedish.

@lolghost7099 3 года назад

I'm Dutch and some of the words I could understand perfectly. It's so fun to see these similarities between languages

@carstenaltena 3 года назад

The months! Inderdaad.

@amarillo1525 Год назад

Yo hablo español nativamente, aunque esten muy lejos las feroes, igual entiendo algunas palabras como Familia (family in english)

@amarillo1525 Год назад

I undertand some words

@FrozenMermaid666 7 месяцев назад

Dutch has tons of cognates with Icelandic / Norse / Faroese etc - I am learning all these pretty languages, and I see so many words that are still similar to the Dutch word! Faroese / Gothic / Norse / Greenlandic Norse / East Norse and Breton / Manx / Cornish and Pretarolo / Guernsey / Sardinian / Aranese / Friulian / Occitan / Gallo etc need to be added to Google translate and to all those apps such as Duolingo, and more ppl should teach them on yt because it’s not easy to find resources and yt videos to learn vocab and grammar etc, so I started learning them by memorizing lyrics!

@FrozenMermaid666 7 месяцев назад

@bree5609 6 лет назад

How cool! Thank you for sharing!

@Chrillo 6 лет назад

Sounds like a mix of Irish, Icelandic and the swedish accent from Gotland.

@Lauratayloradams 2 года назад

Very cool, thank you.

@liljar.6284 5 лет назад

It sounds like a really drunken Icelandic👍

@Santos.Sarmento 3 года назад

Super! Thanks for sharing.

@zarty1065 6 лет назад

I'm Swedish and I nearly understood everything! :D

@sognsvann3 6 лет назад

It sound like the dialect they speak in the county Sogn og Fjordane here in norway.

@asbjrnpoulsen9205 6 лет назад

old vest norse

@MrMafiks 3 года назад

Wow this was easy to understand-from Norway

@nickorange4881 Год назад

That's cool. So interesting

@smartman123 2 года назад

great video

@anna-mariejkristensen5624 5 лет назад

I am from Greenland and i am surprised cuz i understood most of the words

@nordlandskaka 3 года назад

I'm Western Norwegian, and find Faroese surprisingly understandable - more so than Icelandic, interestingly. Biggest difference is that the "r"s are pronounced in a way that makes them sounds like a speech impediment (from a Norwegian perspective).

@aleksanderh.5407 Год назад

R-en på færøysk e som i Tromsødialekt og i Vesterålen. Pluss gammel gutniska på Gotland

@user-B_8 11 месяцев назад

I'm Southern Norwegian and I completely agree with you on that. I too find faroese way more easy to understand than Icelandic. 👍

@dan74695 10 месяцев назад

@@aleksanderh.5407 Det r-ljodet er vanlegt andre stader og, som Vesterålen, Senja og Ofoten.

@dan74695 10 месяцев назад

His r's sound North Norwegian.

@thatflemishdude4034 3 года назад

Im Flemish and i kinda understand a lot of it

@emilias.m8075 6 лет назад

wow, the first six letters from faroese alphabet have almost the same sound from portuguese alphabet.

@cristina_em 6 лет назад

Yea. I noticed this too, and the months.

@Julia-ms3td 5 лет назад

the one he said in the video is not the faroese alphabets though. It's just the danish one, but the letters are said in faroese.

@ErickTosar 5 лет назад

Same for spanish! most of them, that's because it is still an indoeuropean lenguage!

@markus9641 4 года назад

Im swedish and I understood almost all he said. Its very very cool.

@linajurgensen4698 5 лет назад

It sounds like some English speaker tries to speak Icelandic or Swedish while gargling water...

@oreykristin703 4 года назад

This just sounded like an English guy trying to speak Icelandic cuz I swear I understood every single word he said😂

@stoffni 4 года назад

This is crazy! As a Swede I totally understand it all. I wasnt aware of how similar Faroese sounded. That is sooo cool!

@sebvincent5017 5 лет назад

i’m icelandic and it sounded alot like icelandic, almost exactly the same hehe

@terceldude 5 лет назад

Therefore I wanna say "DUH" to the people saying it only looks similar to Icelandic in written form and similar to Norwegian in spoken form. I wanna say DUH to them that THEY WERE WRONG ALL ALONG!

@terceldude 5 лет назад

BTW, I love Iceland and hope to come back! :) I would love to visit: Ísafjörður, , Hvalfjörður and Borgarfjörður in Western Iceland, not necessarily Borgarfjörður Eystra lol ;)

@wuwmfrs 5 лет назад

@@terceldude Then I wanna say DUH to you, haha! Icelandic is literally a modern Old Norse, close to identical with old age norwegian, which is the actual original Norwegian language kept mostly by the norwegians and other scandinavians who settled the island. Many people fled there to avoid arbsurd high taxes or death because of for instance Óláfr hinn helgi (king Olav the Holy) for believing in the old gods and not christ. Icelanders are trueblood norwegians mixed with selection of celtic women, and considering the 100 different dialects we have all over Norway, some of the isolated ones almost Old Norse/Icelandic, others very similar, I would say it is VERY VERY similar to Norwegian/Swedish/Danish; words, grammar, etc. Most Scandinavians with a skilled ear or maybe even any average person could communicate, quickly pick up and learn Icelandic/Faroese super fast with minor practice. :) Quick fast but not very detailed history lesson for you. Skál!

@terceldude 5 лет назад

@@wuwmfrs Can I trade the jerks of my country for cool people like you? :)

@wuwmfrs 5 лет назад

@@terceldude Haha, where are you from?

@simonolthenorwegian 3 года назад

Faroese is actually really close to my norwegian dialect. They share a lot of grammar, vocabulary and small quirks.

@wuwmfrs 5 лет назад

Norse/Old Norwegian and the variants spoken across Scandinavia back in the days(not entirely how they developed but still) can be seen as the father of Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish. Take the crazy amount of Norwegian and Swedish dialects to consideration. No shit they sound similar and many close to the same! The grammar between them is almost untouched. This is so interesting! :D

@luizsilveiramc 5 лет назад

It's related to Icelandic. 😃 E.g.: "Thank you" sounds like the Icelandic sentence "Takk fyrir".

@Unknown-bi7wf 4 года назад

Icelandic and faroese have a common origin, they are very different.

@magnuslindgren5640 3 года назад

Old norse

@Zeagods-CyberShadow 3 года назад

Í líka máta

@carstenaltena 3 года назад

Fascinating. The pronunciation of words for months are almost exactly the same as in Dutch.

@dan74695 2 года назад

It sounds a bit like a very thick northern Norwegian accent.

@carstenaltena 2 года назад

@@dan74695 To me, Norwegian can sound a lot like (rural) Dutch.

@ecMonify 5 лет назад

it fascinates me how similar faroese sounds to the swedish accent spoken on the island of gotland, especially since that accent is so different to any other scandinavian accent (at least as far as i know). anyways, here's hoping they finally add faroese to google translate so i can translate all of those Týr songs! :P

@SKEPGFX 4 года назад

I speak Swedish and I can say I pretty much understood all of that. Days were a bit funny as were a few numbers but made complete sense lol

@MAELAET_ Год назад

i understud a lot of it because im from norway so thats cool

@yvonnecampbell7036 6 месяцев назад

Wauw, after some practice zou ik hem kunnen verstaan xD.

@wutdehek.3505 6 лет назад

i live in the faroe island i live in strendur

@sveinbjarturorjonsson9018 5 лет назад

For me it sounds like Icelandic with a danish accent made a child with Irish. Dicerish

@TokageSan 6 лет назад

That sounds very similar to Norwegian and Swedish

@rykkardtrappapipar7355 6 лет назад

Very quick! It's similar to the Icelandic and the proto-germanic family. But a little bit hard to learn!

@skakpedersen 5 лет назад

It’s a beautiful language and because of John, my wife and I have decided: “Next stop Torshavn”. Thanks for sharing [shake]

@reneearce1667 Год назад

my first time to hear this type of language, wow

@dan74695 10 месяцев назад

It sounds very Norwegian

@sydneym4527 5 лет назад

I’m an English speaker and I understand a bit of Norwegian and I almost completely understood him!!!! Very cool!!!!

@MistressGlowWorm 4 года назад

What a beautiful language.

@johnbush5325 4 года назад

I'm a American English speaker and not bilingual at all, and I could sort of understand some of those words vagely. Fascinating.

@BoynamedMagnus183 4 года назад

I love faroese this is so similar to west norwegian dialect and Nynorsk that we just written in Norway This heards like when a Icelander tries to speak Nynorsk

@annliisajulia7885 3 года назад

Just found out I have ancestry related to the people of Faroes island. There’s so much I don’t know and I’m so interested.

@jimi4906 3 года назад

@Rimrock300 3 года назад

They understand Danish well as they learn it at school. Offical written Norwegian (bokmål) is very close to Danish, but different accents. Possible Norvegian can be more easy to learn for a foreginer that knows english well foreginer, as it's more 'straight forward' with the sounds used when talking, while Danish more use some special sounds in their accent. Anyway, you can have a look at both) The Faroese language is different from Norwegian (bokmål) and Danish, more 'old style' and harder to learn. It's kind of a mix between Icelandic and some west coast Norwegian accents (which again is quite different from the more modern offical written Norwegian, bokmål. (There were/are so many different accents in Norway, they did gav up on finding a mutual written language based on those, just made it simple and imported Danish as the official writing, and made some local adjustments naturally. Or more correctly, Denmark made the decition to take their language to Norway, as they ruled the country for some centuries back in the old days)

@rebeccagutierrez1401 6 лет назад

I understood a tiny bit of it. I also speak Spanish. Greetings from the carribean island of Puerto Rico.

@ivanlandivar1741 2 месяца назад

Interesting.

@johnbush5325 4 года назад

When he said goodbye it sounded like "fair well"

@lamarazmoe6438 6 лет назад

Thanks for saying the alphabet so fast

@johnbush5325 4 года назад

When he says "how much does this cost" I could hear "cost" in there

@Tobi-oi3uf 4 года назад

Yeah it's because English is also a Germanic language

@pain-killeryates5448 5 лет назад

I understand a bit of Icelandic and its so similar

@jeabo0adhd 6 лет назад

If reminds of me of Old English. I can understand most of the vocabulary. Modern English has, indeed, broken away from its North and West Germanic cousins.

@Fry09294 2 года назад

No it hasn’t, what are you talking about?

@andritgm 4 года назад

I'm icelandic and it's almost the same

@hekipeki 5 лет назад

my grandpa had a casual conversation while he spoke icelandic and the other guy spoke faroese, pretty fucking insane

@gabrieleroloff1390 3 месяца назад

with knowing German and Swedish it is possible to understand a lot he said

@Complimentarydust 3 года назад

I was a little skeptical on how much Gaelige would be in there but there alot of similiarities right there.

@dan74695 10 месяцев назад

I don't hear the Irish, I only hear Norwegian and a tiny bit of Icelandic.

@PogoDarnexx 2 года назад

As Germany the Month where like 100% the same! And the Alphabet was also like the same but sounded shorter XD But the rest was like totally different.

@ulfurkarlsson5885 4 года назад

Some of it reminds me of Icelandic, i usually understand it better when written for some reason though. The dialect is very diffrent from Icelandic.

@ulfurkarlsson5885 4 года назад

@@Unknown-bi7wf i know

@Havvyer Год назад

I understood some of the words I know from Swedish. 😊

@wilmotown 4 года назад

I just spent a few months in Denmark (among other things) learning Danish, and let me tell you this autonomous kingdom’s language is WAY closer to Danish than Denmark’s other autonomous kingdom’s language is.

@martinh1309 4 месяца назад

🥱🥱🥱 Because the Faroe Islands alongside Greenland and Iceland etc were norwegian possessions which Denmark stole.

@patriciosuarez5731 5 лет назад

I love this language sounds like the see in Winter¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

@espo5596 10 месяцев назад

I speak Icelandic and I was able to understand the Majority of what was being said

@jeppahorse 3 года назад

It's like a mix of west norwegian and northern norwegian. Korr mykje koste dettan? Korr kjæm du ifrå? Those irish-style "R's" are typical for Lofoten.

@KJ-wh8fv Год назад

I'm German and the month are like in my language. The Northern languages (Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish) are similar. My 7th language is Swedish and my 8th one is Danish. So I can understand the other ones.

@Francescomonti60 3 года назад

Hi guys, I have a question. Which is closer to ancient Norse: Faroese or Icelandic? I'm very curious, thanks.

@Rimrock300 3 года назад

Icelandic. Faroese and Icelandic got pretty similar grammar and writing, but at Iceland they prononuce they language closer to old Norse. Faroese sounds a bit closer to Norwegian west coast accents while Icelandic speak more the 'old school' way. I think of Faroese like 'Icelandic Light' ;) Also check out 'Gutamål', the old accent of the swedish island of Gotland where they somehow have managed to keep the accent having a old Norse feeling to it.

@belenc.l9773 3 года назад

I speak german, english, and a bit of norwegian and understood most of it.

@tatib856 6 лет назад

Which song is that in the begining and at the end?

@obywatelcane6775 3 года назад

Is that true that they speak Faroese in Wrong Turn Foundation [2021]?

@FFL3001 10 месяцев назад

For me as a norwegian it's like he is speaking norwegian to me while I am experiencing a mild stroke.

@rickdeckard4213 6 лет назад

What a beautiful language. I'm Scottish, but I can make out some of it.

@Milo19970 Год назад

Sounds very similar to ancient Rotterdamse. Language spoken in a city from the Netherlands thousands of years ago.

@johnbush5325 4 года назад

Sunday sounded like "sunada"

@ChantelStays 4 года назад

Yep. I want to be there.

@SuperTrisset 6 лет назад

Cool, another language i didnt even know i could speak. Im from Sweden.

@Unknown-bi7wf 4 года назад

you can't

@reyumolina3104 4 года назад

Wow ! I'm from Philippines

@leonjicha9921 6 лет назад

The months sounded like a drunken guy from england speaking german

@tammylain7754 5 месяцев назад

a lot like Danish, but they are also a part of Scandinavia- they learn Danish in school and go to university here.. just like in Greenland and sometimes Iceland....

@Neophema 5 лет назад

Their R is an approximant and not an alveolar tap?

@JCMH 4 года назад

Yes; it is like Swedish or Norwegian with an English accent.

@sirbattlecat 6 лет назад

Wow it's so close to Danish. I thought it'd be closer to Icelandic.

@trygvelie573 5 лет назад

This is Norwegian with a slight speech impediment. Hello from Oslo!

@lebasi9005 Год назад

Thanks! It's hard to found videos, I speak spanish, and no existe spanish - faroese 😓

@dan74695 10 месяцев назад

I have a Faroese playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLqiZ-ikph3Mmlq3EZpBtiRAayoO627VY3&si=fc2rOwgV6IldcnMJ

@lebasi9005 10 месяцев назад

Thanks! @@dan74695

@AmaiAi 4 года назад

I speak spanish and family sounded like familia (the word for family in spanish tho it sounded similar to italian too) :'))) I'm not even spanish but peruvian but knowing spanish and english actually helped me understand some words and phrases, now i don't feel like an outcast for living in a country in development :')))))))

@aleksanderh.5407 Год назад

Norwegians younger than 60 can usually read more of the spanish texts than of the icelandic, and even understand some fragments of the written rumanian. This is because there was much latin going into english, norwegian, german,also via the french influences.

@soniaparker8224 3 года назад

I am Portuguese and i I understood a lot. similar words

@519forestmonk9 4 года назад

It really does sound like a know that language with a Celtic pronunciation.

@edram4051 6 лет назад

Do you think he can speak a little bit faster?

@kebman 3 года назад

When he said restaurant I heard "mead hall" in Norwegian lol. But I guess he really said "food hall." Correct me if I'm wrong. I suppose mead wouldn't be pronounced very differently anyway.

@Rimrock300 3 года назад

Mat-stova, mat-stue) Simple and right to the point, 'food room', it's a cool expression;)

@avabeanwater3749 7 лет назад

In what way is faroese related to irish, other than them both being indo-european

@nicolas94h 7 лет назад

I believe celtic influenced the faroese language or the other way around

@nathalia5866 6 лет назад

yakityjak From what I've seen other comment, Irish monks colonized Faroe Islands and then Vikings took it

@brandarheinsson2877 6 лет назад

Irish munks used to live on the islands; but that's not the reason. Evidence shows that the Faroese "landnám" (To touch land i.e the settlement) took place as early as 2900 B.C. Some evidence support an even earlier settlement 3900. B.C but that is highly unlikely, and the evidence found can be explained otherwise. Through out the first centuries, and in particular between 825 and 1000 A.C. many celts would come to live on the islands. Some immigrated, the most famous one being Grímur Kamban - according to Faroe saga, a norseman, but he was probably from Isle of Man or from the Orkneys. Women were often stolen from Ireland and Scotland by the faroese vikings, and they stayed on the islands as wifes of the faroese men. So through immigration and viking plunder, the Celtic languages were introduced to the faroese language, and it shaped the language to this very day - kinda like french and english. Examples of faroese words with a celtic origin are : Ærgi, blak, dímun, drunnur, grúkur, lámur and tarvur etc... Some places on the islands also bear witness to the influence of Celtic language fx. Argir (from the word Ærgi), Stóra and Líttla Dímun, Mykines etc... So there you have it. Immigration (not settlement, but immigration to the already inhabited islands, inhabited by the faroese), viking plunder and perhaps - a likely perhaps, but after all, only a perhaps- trade with the british isles before the shutdown of the islands by the danish colonists around 1380.

@brandarheinsson2877 6 лет назад

Common belief - but not accurate. The islands had been inhabited for thousands of years before the irish munks, led by St.Brandan, came to the islands. Christianity probably co-existed with other religions for hundreds of years until its forced domination around 1035. Grímur Kamban, one of the alleged vikings to take the faroe islands from the irsh, was a celt himself. The faroe islands were an independent state until 1035, and were finally deprived of its independence in 1380. Vikings lived on the islands, and the islanders were vikings - but the Faroe islands fostered a multicultural society; Christianity, ásatrúgv and probably a proto-germanic nature religion, co-existed on the islands. The past of the otherwise very homogeneous islands is surprisingly nuanced. So, there you go.

@asbjrnpoulsen9205 6 лет назад

the first viking ther settled was half norse half irish named grímur norse kamban celtic