#faroese — Public Fediverse posts
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Islands Matter Public Seminar: Faroese & Shetlandic Folklore
26 February, free onlineProf Jóan Pauli Joensen (University of the Faroe Islands) on “Water Beings in the Faroese Folklore – Tradition & Change” & Prof Andrew Jennings (UHI Institute for Northern Studies) on “From Fetlar to Foula – The Norse Roots of Shetland Folklore”
#Scottish #Scotland #Shetlandic #Faroese #Shetland #Faroes #folklore #Norse
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Islands Matter Public Seminar: Faroese & Shetlandic Folklore
26 February, free onlineProf Jóan Pauli Joensen (University of the Faroe Islands) on “Water Beings in the Faroese Folklore – Tradition & Change” & Prof Andrew Jennings (UHI Institute for Northern Studies) on “From Fetlar to Foula – The Norse Roots of Shetland Folklore”
#Scottish #Scotland #Shetlandic #Faroese #Shetland #Faroes #folklore #Norse
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Islands Matter Public Seminar: Faroese & Shetlandic Folklore
26 February, free onlineProf Jóan Pauli Joensen (University of the Faroe Islands) on “Water Beings in the Faroese Folklore – Tradition & Change” & Prof Andrew Jennings (UHI Institute for Northern Studies) on “From Fetlar to Foula – The Norse Roots of Shetland Folklore”
#Scottish #Scotland #Shetlandic #Faroese #Shetland #Faroes #folklore #Norse
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Islands Matter Public Seminar: Faroese & Shetlandic Folklore
26 February, free onlineProf Jóan Pauli Joensen (University of the Faroe Islands) on “Water Beings in the Faroese Folklore – Tradition & Change” & Prof Andrew Jennings (UHI Institute for Northern Studies) on “From Fetlar to Foula – The Norse Roots of Shetland Folklore”
#Scottish #Scotland #Shetlandic #Faroese #Shetland #Faroes #folklore #Norse
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Islands Matter Public Seminar: Faroese & Shetlandic Folklore
26 February, free onlineProf Jóan Pauli Joensen (University of the Faroe Islands) on “Water Beings in the Faroese Folklore – Tradition & Change” & Prof Andrew Jennings (UHI Institute for Northern Studies) on “From Fetlar to Foula – The Norse Roots of Shetland Folklore”
#Scottish #Scotland #Shetlandic #Faroese #Shetland #Faroes #folklore #Norse
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Hype for the Future 87K: Faroese Saga Signatures
Introduction
Saga times in the Faroe Islands 🇫🇴 have largely been represented with a certain choral signature typical of the Faroese language.
Signature
Grani bar gullið av heiði, brá hann sínum brandi av reiði, Sjúrður vá á orminum, Grani bar gullið av heiði.
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Hype for the Future 87A: The Faroe Islands Explained
Introduction Located off the north coast of Great Britain, the Faroe Islands are completely unrelated to Scotland or the United Kingdom as a whole, especially culturally and historically. While geographically related to the Orkney and Shetland Islands further south, the Faroe Islands have largely been associated with the Vikings for a longer stretch, from Norway to Denmark. Information The Faroe Islands represent an isolated island chain of the European continent, located to the north and […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/hype-for-the-future-87a-the-faroe-islands-explained/
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Hype for the Future 87/284: Faroese Americans
Overview Though Faroese Americans have likely existed in small numbers from the nineteenth century, the population of the Faroe Islands has always been relatively small to begin with, so the host region had never been populated to a level typical of prominent host nations. However, in the cases that Faroese Americans likely exist, the most common migration paths are either toward Denmark or toward Norway, not overseas.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/hype-for-the-future-87-284-faroese-americans/
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#Germany has for centuries been a conglomerate of many tribes. The neighbour tribe of Alemannen gave the #French name Allemagne.
#Polish name #Niemcy comes from *němьcь - speechless - since German is not mutually intelligible with #Slavic languages.
#Faroese word for #Germany is #Týskland. It derives from Old High German work #diutisc (of or pertaining to the people or tribe). In #OldNorse it became þýðskr/þjóðskr and later formed #Tyskland in Scandinavian languages.
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Week 30, 2025: What @[email protected] album languages grew the most this week?
So maybe they didn't build the pyramids after all, but the Faroe islanders just beat the Egyptians and everyone else. 🥇🇫🇴🎉
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#1N5817 Schottky Barrier Rectifying #Diode is one of many #semiconductors powering modern #technology.
#Faroese word for it is #hálvleiðari (#hálv - half-way + #leiðari - conductor), while #electrode is called #kleiv - a word that originally meant a "narrow cleft".
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#1N5817 Schottky Barrier Rectifying #Diode is one of many #semiconductors powering modern #technology.
#Faroese word for it is #hálvleiðari (#hálv - half-way + #leiðari - conductor), while #electrode is called #kleiv - a word that originally meant a "narrow cleft".
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#1N5817 Schottky Barrier Rectifying #Diode is one of many #semiconductors powering modern #technology.
#Faroese word for it is #hálvleiðari (#hálv - half-way + #leiðari - conductor), while #electrode is called #kleiv - a word that originally meant a "narrow cleft".
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#1N5817 Schottky Barrier Rectifying #Diode is one of many #semiconductors powering modern #technology.
#Faroese word for it is #hálvleiðari (#hálv - half-way + #leiðari - conductor), while #electrode is called #kleiv - a word that originally meant a "narrow cleft".
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#1N5817 Schottky Barrier Rectifying #Diode is one of many #semiconductors powering modern #technology.
#Faroese word for it is #hálvleiðari (#hálv - half-way + #leiðari - conductor), while #electrode is called #kleiv - a word that originally meant a "narrow cleft".
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While most European #languages have quite a similar word for #mathematics, #Faroese just has to be an exception with the word #støddfrøði 🙂 Together with #Icelandic #stærðfræði...
The noun comes from the words #stødd (quantity, dimensions) and #frøði (science, -ology).
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While most European #languages have quite a similar word for #mathematics, #Faroese just has to be an exception with the word #støddfrøði 🙂 Together with #Icelandic #stærðfræði...
The noun comes from the words #stødd (quantity, dimensions) and #frøði (science, -ology).
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While most European #languages have quite a similar word for #mathematics, #Faroese just has to be an exception with the word #støddfrøði 🙂 Together with #Icelandic #stærðfræði...
The noun comes from the words #stødd (quantity, dimensions) and #frøði (science, -ology).
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While most European #languages have quite a similar word for #mathematics, #Faroese just has to be an exception with the word #støddfrøði 🙂 Together with #Icelandic #stærðfræði...
The noun comes from the words #stødd (quantity, dimensions) and #frøði (science, -ology).
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While most European #languages have quite a similar word for #mathematics, #Faroese just has to be an exception with the word #støddfrøði 🙂 Together with #Icelandic #stærðfræði...
The noun comes from the words #stødd (quantity, dimensions) and #frøði (science, -ology).
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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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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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This one is probably better!
#Danish #Norwegian #Faroese #SouthernSámi #Oslash #Typedesign -
This one is probably better!
#Danish #Norwegian #Faroese #SouthernSámi #Oslash #Typedesign -
This one is probably better!
#Danish #Norwegian #Faroese #SouthernSámi #Oslash #Typedesign -
This one is probably better!
#Danish #Norwegian #Faroese #SouthernSámi #Oslash #Typedesign -
Electric Blue is getting closer to a long needed update.
Does this ø work for you? #Danish, #Norwegian, #Faroese, and #SouthernSámi designers out there? -
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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I lost counting and keeping track but there's
#danish #swedish #norwegian #finnish #russian #polish #slovak #basque #catalan #bulgarian #hungarian #estonian #lithuanian #latvian #czech #turkish #swiss #viennese #slowanian #romanian #welsh #celtic #icelandic #irish #croatian #greek #albanian #serbocroatian #ukranian #belarussian #portugese #galic and #faroese -
The #Faroese ‘níggju’ is the opposite. It developed its -ggj- separately through a regular sound change.
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Many #Faroese #neologisms reuse existing words. The word “#fløga” is not an exception. With its original meaning being the layer on a stack (of hay) and thick slice (of bread) it now also means the compact disc (#CD). The thick layer of data, perhaps?
Pictured is the debut album of the folk-metal band #Hamradun released in 2015. #Music CD would be called #ljómfløga in Faroese.
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Week 43, 2024: What @[email protected] album languages grew the most this week?
"Like Iceland, if 93% less hipsters" The Faroe Islands land an impressive victory. 🥇🇫🇴🎉
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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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#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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#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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#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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#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.