As an island nation, the Faroes have a long history of immigration and emigration. Even the Faroese with the deepest roots on the islands have ancestors who came from somewhere else: Norway, Denmark,...
The Botanist Hans Christian Lyngbye and his Travel to the Faroe Islands in 1817
On the 9th of June in 1817, the Danish theologian, botanic and natural historian, Hans Christian Lyngbye (1782-1837)...
The artist Sigrun Gunnarsdóttir was born in 1950 in the village of Eiði in the Faroe Islands. This is where she grew up and where her interest in the visual arts began in childhood. In Eiði, she has...