Recent Anthropological Studies of the Faroe Islands (1971-1975)

For the student of European ethnology, the Faroe Islands, situated in the North Atlantic between Iceland and Norway, have particular comparative significance for Eastern Canadian settlement. The almost total dependence of the islands on the profits of fishing, their colonial status (from Denmark) over many centuries, their fiercely individualistic life-style, all have close parallels to phenomena in the social development of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. True, there are some important distinctions, such as the size of the unit — now some 40,000 inhabitants — their possession of a distinct language, Faroese, a formal political subordination to the mother-country (which was however rejected, albeit by a small majority, in the only referendum on independence that has so far been held), and the absence of a larger Confederation with the same language and cultural tradition

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• The Norse Settlement of the Faroe Islands

  Sverri Dahl•Medieval Archaeology•1970

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