Thanks for watching everyone! Let me know if you enjoyed the video and if you've any more information on the Viking Age in the Faroe Islands or ideas for future videos!
Hi, Faroese person here. A few notes: Tinganes (thing/parliament peninsula) is not where the modern parliament is. Instead the building on Tinganes is the Prime Minister's office. Fulmar is actually a borrowing from Old Norse. The Old Norse term "fúll már" literally means "foul gull". The Faroese terms for fulmar are havhestur (sea horse) and náti. But you're right about skua, this word comes from skúvur which is an old form of the modern term skúgvur, but bear in mind: the Faroese word is specific to the Great skua (Stercorarius skua) while skua in English refers to the entire group of birds. The Faroese word for skua is kjógvi. You mention Vestmannaeyjar, well, these are in Iceland but in addition to Vestmanna(havn) we also have Vestmannabjørg in the Faroes. You are not wrong about the meaning of lámur but today it mostly means a left-handed person. It is a noun but it's sometimes used as an adjective but in general this is considered non-standard. Interesting video as always.
Very informative comment, thank you. May I ask, how is life on The Faroese islands? I've always been very interested in this beautiful place. It's definitely a place I could consider working in for a while.
Nice video but small correction, we do not belong to Denmark, we are in the Danish Kingdom but Denmark does not own us, we make our own laws, we have our own government, we have our own social security number (P-tal) seperate from the Danish CPR number, its a touchy subject here, due to the oppression and damage by the Danes to the Faroese language and culture, it wasn't until the 1940's that Faroese was allowed to be taught in schools or used in church or for legal preceedings, it was'nt until 1948 that Faroese was the official language of the Faroes, and then theres the fact that we had a referendum for independence in 1946 where 50.7 % of people voted in favour of independence, once the Danish king heard of it he dissolved the løgtingi and got it his way with home rule.
@@historywithhilbert146 hey, I have read an article I romania saying that the burial site of King Bluetooth has been found. Is that true? They said they found it using satellite images.
Hi Hilbert! A video or even series of videos on the history of the Hebrides would be amazing. The mixture of Gaelic and Norse cultures there is fascinating. Longtime subscriber, love the channel!
Hiii Faroese person here, great video! Always fun to see our little country getting more recognition. Also fun fact we sing and dance about Sigmund Brestirson and his father :)
Great video I have always wanted to visit the faroes I was planning to on the way back from my Iceland trip in October but didn’t get the chance the Norse and Viking are such a fascinating culture and people
They took Gaelic Woman from Scotland/Ireland when they raided those islands to bring with them n most through the mothers side are of Gaelic genealogy!
Unfortunately being Scottish I can't hear the words "Faroe Islands" without immediately thinking of the abysmal 2-2 draw in the Euro 2004 qualifying campaign.. Apart from that I enjoyed the video as ever. Love your pronunciations. Top banana 👍
I've been there on my way to iceland. Around the time of their thing election. All the election posters only had the candidates first name on it. My favorite Färöe island fun fact, because it's so cute....
I wish to see a proper video on the lost Finnish languages and culture. Since being ruled over Swedes for some 200 years and then our knowledges being burnt in the Saint Petersburg fires and ruled by Russians, most Finnish things are leased from other cultures and languages. Also I wonder about Suomenusko, this being the finnic religion back when Asatru was a thing and before the Swedish Catholics tried to convert everyone. There is very little information on the religion but it should be noted that Finno-Ugric people stem from Siberia so the religion must resemble Tengri to some form. And this is still being practiced as a part of culture among the Sapmi people, I'm quite sorry for them, being caught between the Finns, Sveithir and Norger vikingar and the Rus'. Also, don't believe like other gaijin that Kalevala is anything like our religion. Kalevala is just fiction combined from many stories and folklore. Then last thing, from having spoken to Estonian friends there seems to be also a different name for the religion, Ukonusko and Suomenusko just being the 2 Finnish ones.
Just came back from my Iceland trip and as I used the ferry I had a short stop at Torshavn. Absolutely lovely place and I surely will come back to see more from the Faroer Islands.
Beautiful, unspoiled place, but I'm left wondering if trees just can't live there? Seems it would be useful to have some forest amongst all that open land.
I’ve been there about a month ago, there is a surprising amount of trees actually (a lot more and bigger than in Iceland)! mainly in the more populated areas, but I’d guess they’re planting more, especially to help with erosion
As an Icelander, my opinion of what would describe recently-modern (traditional) Faeroese cuisine (before 2000?) special would be "rancid". I really cannot afford to throw any stones, seeing that I live in the glass house of same-period Icelandic cuisine, best described as "stinking rotten" (fermented shark and rotten skate). While these cuisine traits have been labeled "traditional" in both countries, and many young people have acquired the respective taste, these are regarded as traditions best forgotten by most young Faeroese & Icelanders.
I don't know how the situation is in Iceland, but you're dead wrong about young Faroe Islanders considering traditional Faroese cuisine "traditions best forgotten." The various cured meats are still some of the most common toppings on bread in schoolchildren's lunchboxes, most dishes are still cooked as everyday meals in households, and festival streetvendors experiment with fermented meat in burgers.
@@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen, in this case I stand corrected regarding traditional cuisine in Færeyjar. Most (but not all) young Icelanders give the fermented Icelandic stuff (Shark & Skate) a wide berth, while súrmatur and harðfiskur are more popular.
@@Halli50 Mind you, I don't blame them! I'm in the very small minority, when I say that fermented is vile! :D Perhaps I should visit Iceland some day, so that we can agree on not eating fermented fish, and going out for hotdogs instead :D
Part of my MA thesis is on Viking Age rural farmsteads on the Faroe Islands, the adaptations they accomplished are quite interesting - in many ways the irrigation techniques and shielings are closer to Greenland than Norway.
@@bobmalibaliyahmarley1551 It was predominantly settled by the Icelandic Norse, correct, but the architectural and organisational layout of their farmsteads in some ways are closer to those seen on the Faroes than anywhere else, despite the fact there has been no studies into residents of Faroese descent making up the first wave of migrations
Hello Hilbert. Interesting history and great backdrop. Hearing the Norse words always seems so familiar, but not surprising as they appear in similar local Yorkshire words. I always wanted to visit other Viking lands, with such stunning scenery, but have only ever been to Denmark, though Copenhagen felt like I had gone home somehow.
@@worrywirt The obvious one that comes to mind is using "barn" to mean child. My grandad used to say "eyen" not eyes, still using the "n" plural. As for place names check out "Map Men" video on the north south divide in England for examples of Viking ones in former Danelaw as against Saxon ones in the south. Another obvious example is beck for stream. I had to learn a song in German lessons at school that had the word "bächlein" from the same source. I am no expert, so better to stop there I reckon.
Visited the Faroe Islands about a month ago. Absolutely beautiful place. For someone from a flat land, it's a bit of an experience to drive around their impressive road network though. Lots of sheep, tunnels, steep drops and very narrow roads. But I definitely recommend hiring a car to see this magnificent place.
Lovely video; shame you didn't like the fulmar, though it is quite an acquired taste :D A note on the pronounciation of the -vík ending: it's an /ʊi/ sound, not /ju/. As for the Sandavágur runestone, we had quite a few discussions about it when I studied history as part of my BA.Ed., and the prevailing understanding at the time, was that it was likely a... "creative" re-telling of local history :D I.e., Thorkild Onundarson was full of shit ;D
They both has a common etymology. The spelling of "tarbh" might be a bit misleading, but historically, 'bh' represented sounds ranging from [w] to [v] in Irish as they've been allophones up until recently. Irish uses "bh" for this sound as /v/ is /b/ under lenition. In Proto-Celtic, the word would've been something like *tarwos, and you can see how it looks quite a bit like both the Greek and Latin words. It's suspected that Proto-Indo-European originally borrowed the word from a contemporary Semitic language.
It's lurking in the name of the parliament of the Isle of Man, too - Tynwald, which is just another form of what became the Iceland Þingvellir (assembly field).
There is a place called Tingwall (Þingvǫllr)near where we live and it was the meeting place for the Norse here in The Shetland Isles, the actual ruins of the ancient Parliament are still there. 😌
That would need to be a future within a couple of centuries from now, though, give it a millennium, and humanity should very likely be a more or less even blend. (provided, of course, that our planet is still fit for human life by then).
Translation for those who don't speak idiot- "I'm a dunce who's trying to impersonate a Black person and who doesn't understand what Afro-futurism is(it's an art style so I don't know why you're talking about a White nature reserve) and is using the term to fear monger and make Black people look like comically evil geniuses who have some secret plan to exterminate White people for some reason".
Altingiđ is in iceland, in the faroes it is called landsstýriđ and løgtingiđ. Also faroes is the english word for the country Føroyar and has nothing to do with sheep. I don't know where the comes from but it is false. The closest meaning to the name føroyar is an old norse boat called færing.
"Får" is still commonly used here in Norway when we speak about the domesticated sheep. It's even dialects in the Norwegian language that uses the similar sounding word "fær". In Norwegian the Faroe Islands is called "Færøyene" (Sheep Islands). Many linguists experts believe the first part of the name føroyar (færøyar) is connected to the old norse name for sheeps, so i find it difficult to accept your conclusion without more data. Færing is not a boat-type. It's mora a boat classification. It describes a boat equipped with four oars. This have even been described in an English Wikipedia article
@@puderkman so are the Scots, they have Scandinavia ties too due to the Vikings. It could have been so, especially snice Britain could have beaten Denmark-Norway in a war like the Napoleonic War.
@@KangaKucha To be honest, as a Norwegian, I think that Scots (with the exception of the Gaelic speaking ones) are more similar to Englishmen than they are to Scandinavians.
