#faroeislands — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/172526/ Bakkafrost Scotland Wins Enterprise Award for Excellence in Innovation #FaroeIslands
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Archaeologists have uncovered a rare runestone at an ancient site in the Faroe Islands. Its mysterious inscription could offer new clues about the people who lived there centuries ago and their connections across the North Atlantic.
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Archaeologists have uncovered a rare runestone at an ancient site in the Faroe Islands. Its mysterious inscription could offer new clues about the people who lived there centuries ago and their connections across the North Atlantic.
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Archaeologists have uncovered a rare runestone at an ancient site in the Faroe Islands. Its mysterious inscription could offer new clues about the people who lived there centuries ago and their connections across the North Atlantic.
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Archaeologists have uncovered a rare runestone at an ancient site in the Faroe Islands. Its mysterious inscription could offer new clues about the people who lived there centuries ago and their connections across the North Atlantic.
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Archaeologists have uncovered a rare runestone at an ancient site in the Faroe Islands. Its mysterious inscription could offer new clues about the people who lived there centuries ago and their connections across the North Atlantic.
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The Faroe Islands are home to the world’s first undersea roundabout.
It’s part of Eysturoyartunnilin, a 11 km tunnel network between two of the islands.
The roundabout, nicknamed “the jellyfish”, features an illuminated artwork by Tróndur Patursson.
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The Faroe Islands are home to the world’s first undersea roundabout.
It’s part of Eysturoyartunnilin, a 11 km tunnel network between two of the islands.
The roundabout, nicknamed “the jellyfish”, features an illuminated artwork by Tróndur Patursson.
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The Faroe Islands are home to the world’s first undersea roundabout.
It’s part of Eysturoyartunnilin, a 11 km tunnel network between two of the islands.
The roundabout, nicknamed “the jellyfish”, features an illuminated artwork by Tróndur Patursson.
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/171275/ Faroe Islands kill 15 times more whales than demand requires #FaroeIslands
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/171159/ This Remote Island Destination Between Iceland and Scotland Now Has a Luxury Hotel—and We Were the First to Stay #FaroeIslands
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https://www.europesays.com/dk/171043/ Faroese films take centre stage as Nuuk strengthens North Atlantic ties #FaroeIslands
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#Funningsfjørður (pop. 59) is located at the bottom of an inlet. It's an outlying village from #Elduvík found in 1832 as #niðursetubygd.
Its name comes from the village of #Funningur - the noun #finningur means #find. Tradition says that the first viking on the #FaroeIslands, #Grímur Kamban, settled there.
The company #OceanRainforest is experimenting with #seaweed cultivation in the fjord, and at the port, up to 4k pallets are produced daily.
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#Hestur (pop. 15) is a #Faroese village on the island of Hestur. Its name refers to the ridge of the #island which resembles the back of a #horse - #hestur in #Faroese.
In 1919 a fishing accident resulted in the deaths of one-third of #Hestur's men. Following that accident and to fight the depopulation of the village a swimming #pool was built - it was opened in 1983.
The local #post office opens just once a week for only 90 minutes.
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The #Faroese word for #ivy is #viðbendil. It literally means something that bends and twists (#benda) towards (#við) / in a certain direction
While #Hedera helix is not found naturally on the #FaroeIslands, it can be bought at local garden centres
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The #Faroese word for #ivy is #viðbendil. It literally means something that bends and twists (#benda) towards (#við) / in a certain direction
While #Hedera helix is not found naturally on the #FaroeIslands, it can be bought at local garden centres
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The #Faroese word for #ivy is #viðbendil. It literally means something that bends and twists (#benda) towards (#við) / in a certain direction
While #Hedera helix is not found naturally on the #FaroeIslands, it can be bought at local garden centres
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The #Faroese word for #ivy is #viðbendil. It literally means something that bends and twists (#benda) towards (#við) / in a certain direction
While #Hedera helix is not found naturally on the #FaroeIslands, it can be bought at local garden centres
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The #Faroese word for #ivy is #viðbendil. It means the wood (from #viður) that bends and twists (#benda).
While #Hedera helix is not found naturally on the #FaroeIslands, it can be bought at local garden centres
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There are fifteen kinds of #fern in the #FaroeIslands. Most of them grow in clefts in rocks where there is moisture and shade.
trøll = troll + kampur = whiskers
The #Faroese word for fern is '#trøllakampar', which means '#troll's beard'.
The most common Faroese fern is the 'fragile fern' (cystopteris fragilis).
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The #Faroese word for leaf is #leyv.
#Deciduous #trees are quite numerous on the islands. In 1979, 6000 small #Nothofagus plants were transferred from Tierra del Fuego to #FaroeIslands, making it the biggest population in Europe.
Another word for leaf is #blað. This one is an interesting one as it also means #sheet, #page, #newspaper, deck of playing cards and (kniie) blade. All of these quite thin and long, somehow resembling the shape of the #leaf...
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Steep mountains - that dominate #FaroeIslands landscape - are of #volcanic origin. Dark layers of #basalt alternate with the softer layers of reddish #tuff - stone made up of volcanic ashes.
These steep mountainsides are called #hamar (rocky wall). At the base a collection of broken rock fragments - called #scree - can quite often be found.
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#Faroese word for #museum is #savn. It comes from the verb “at savna” - to gather, to round up (sheep).
The skeleton of the Pilot Whale at the exposition of the #Tjóðsavnið (#FaroeIslands National Museum).
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The Faroese native #Angelica archangelica (#hvonn) was gathered in the wild and cultivated in gardens. It was served as a dessert, with cream or thick sour milk.
Crops such as #potatoes, #turnips and other roots were only grown in the small patches of cultivated soil. Wild plants have therefore been of some importance for the #Faroese people.
The village of #Hvannasund took its name from the plant - it's "the sound of angelicas".
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#Porkeri (pop. 317) is a #Faroese village on #Suðuroy.
Its name almost certainly derives from #purka - meaning #sow. There's a bit of speculation as to the word’s ending, believed to be a shortened version of #gerði (fenced-in plot of land / enclosure). If correct, #swine would have once been bred here.
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#Oyrareingir (pop. 45) is situated at the very head of the Kollafjørður-fjord on #Streymoy. Its name in #føroyskt comes from words #oyrar (from oyri) that means sandy spit and #eingir - a meadow.
This hamlet is so tiny and its few houses so dispersed among the 'outskirts' of the neighbouring villages of #Signabøur and #Kollafjørður that few maps mention it.
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#Kollafjørður (pop. 828) is #FaroeIslands #longest settlement. It stretches in a 7 km long strip along the fjord and lies at the foot of the #Dyllan mountain.
The rounded shape of the mountain gave the town its name (known since 1350-1400) - #kollur is #Faroese for “round top”.
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They are built strong, they hum and they are hairy. #humla is #Faroese for #bumblebee.
The first bumblebee was caught in the #FaroeIslands in 1887. Bumblebee has breed in the Faroes in the past, especially in the Viking Age, when the climate was warmer then now.
#Jarðarhumla / Buff-tailed #bumblebee / Bombus terrestris (seen on the photo) has been first recorded in #Tvøroyri in May 2017.
-- Find out more at https://jenskjeld.info/UK_side/bumblebee.html
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Are there any Faroe Islanders on Mastodon? Any Faroese speakers? Do they have their own instance? Just Icelandic curiosity.