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Ormurin Langi
Ormurin Langi ("The Long Serpent") is a Faroese folk ballad. It was written in ca. 1830 by Jens Christian Djurhuus. Written in 86 verses in Faroese, the song deals with the Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason. The title ''Ormurin Langi'' refers to Olaf Tryggvason's ship with the same name (Ormrinn Langi in Old Norse). History Around 1800 there was an increasing amount of attention paid to the store of Faroese folk ballads (kvæði), which survived in the oral tradition and were sung as an accompaniment to Faroese dancing. Even before 1800 Jens Christian Svabo had recorded ballads, but collecting got under way seriously after 1800, and names like Johan Henrik Schrøter, Jóannes í Króki and later on, V. U. Hammershaimb can be mentioned in this regard. The old ballads were seen as having special historical value, but there was also interest in more recent ballads, e.g. comic ballads ( táttur), and new ballads were composed in the old style. One poet who attracts particu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faroese Stamp 555 Ormurin Langi
Faroese ( ) or Faroish ( ) may refer to anything pertaining to the Faroe Islands, e.g.: *the Faroese language Faroese ( ; ''føroyskt mál'' ) is a North Germanic language spoken as a first language by about 72,000 Faroe Islanders, around 53,000 of whom reside on the Faroe Islands and 23,000 in other areas, mainly Denmark. It is one of five languages de ... * the Faroese people {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigmundur Brestisson
Sigmundur Brestisson (961–1005) was a Faroese Viking chieftain, and was responsible for introducing Christianity to the Faroe Islands in 999. He is one of the main characters of the Færeyinga saga. According to the Færeyinga saga, emigrants who left Norway to escape the tyranny of Harald I of Norway, settled in the islands about the beginning of the 9th century. Early in the 11th century, Sigmundur, whose family had flourished in the southern islands but had been almost exterminated by invaders from the north, was sent back to the Faroe Islands, whence he had escaped, to take possession of the islands for Olaf Tryggvason, king of Norway. Sigmundur was the first Faroe Islander to convert to the Christian faith, bringing Christianity to the Faroes at the decree of Olaf Tryggvason. Initially Sigmundur sought to convert the islanders by reading the decree to the Alting in Tórshavn, but was nearly killed by the resulting angry mob. He then changed his tactics, went with arme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jørgen Bloch
Jørgen is a Danish, Norwegian, and Faroese masculine given name cognate to George People with the given name Jørgen * Jørgen Aall (1771–1833), Norwegian ship-owner and politician * Jørgen Andersen (1886–1973), Norwegian gymnast * Jørgen Aukland (born 1975), Norwegian cross-country skier * Jørgen Beck (1914–1991), Danish film actor * Jørgen Bentzon (1897–1951), Danish composer * Jørgen Bjelke (1621–1696), Norwegian officer and nobleman * Jørgen Bjørnstad (1894–1942), Norwegian gymnast * Jørgen Bojsen-Møller (born 1954), Danish sailor and Olympic Champion * Jørgen Thygesen Brahe (1515–1565), Danish nobleman * Jørgen Brønlund (1877–1907), Greenlandic polar explorer, educator, and catechist * Jørgen Bru (1881–1974) was a Norwegian sport shooter * Jørgen Brunchorst (1862–1917), Norwegian natural scientist, politician and diplomat * Jørgen Buckhøj (1935–1994), Danish actor * Jørgen Wright Cappelen (1805–1878), Norwegian bookseller and pub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svend Grundtvig
Svend Hersleb Grundtvig (9 September 1824, Copenhagen – 14 July 1883, Frederiksberg) was a Danish literary historian and ethnographer. He was one of the first systematic collectors of Danish traditional music, and he was especially interested in Danish folk songs. He began the large project of editing Danish ballads. He also co-edited Icelandic ballads. He was the son of N. F. S. Grundtvig. Biography His father arranged his education, employing a series of home tutors to teach him Icelandic, Latin, Danish and Anglo-Saxon while personally instructing him in Nordic mythology, Saxo Grammaticus and folkloric ballads. When he was 14, his father bought him a 1656 manuscript of an old ballad, triggering his interest in further exploring the history of Danish folk music which was to be his life's work. When 19, after his father accompanied him on a study tour to England, Grundtvig published Danish translations of English and Scottish ballads before devoting his life to the collectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Einarr Thambarskelfir
Einar Eindridesson Thambarskelfir (c. 980–c. 1050) (Old Norse: ''Einarr Þambarskelfir'', Modern Norwegian: ''Einar Tambarskjelve'') was an influential Norwegian noble and politician during the 11th century. He headed the feudal lords in their opposition to Olaf Haraldsson. Several references are made to him in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla. His cognomen, ''Thambarskelfir'', has two strongly differing explanations. One is that it is derived from ', meaning "shaking bowstring". Thus, the name suggests a master of the longbow. The other is that it is derived from ', meaning "belly", and that it translates to "wobbly belly", surely an unflattering reflection of his physical build. Or it could be the “belly” of the bow. Background Einarr Thambarskelfir was the son of Eindride, a rich and influential farmer at the Viking Age political center of Melhus. Einar Thambarskelfir was a jarl and chieftain at Husaby, a farm in Skaun municipality, and a powerful warlord with hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vigdis Sigmundsdóttir
Vigdis Sigmundsdóttir (born 1 March 1954) is an artist from the Faroe Islands, known internationally for producing a collage of 12 motives from Ormurin Langi (The Long Serpent) that resulted in a series of stamps from Postverk Føroya released in 2006. Biography Sigmundsdóttir is a born artist, and started already as a child to draw, aquarelle and paint on canvas. As a child of the Faroese painter Sigmund Petersen, she had favourable surroundings for developing as an artist. Lately she has mainly concentrated on colorful paper collages. As collages has become her passion, she has developed her own style and inspiration from the particular light and weather on the Faroe Islands. She is a part of an artistic family, and her sister Bibi, niece Aggi Ásgerð Ásgeirsdóttir and niece Vígdis Petersen are artists. Sigmundsdóttir moved to the island Suðuroy which is the most southern part of Faroe Islands. Education *1956: Graduated as a Nurse from Randers Centralsyge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postverk Føroya
Posta is the postal service of the Faroe Islands and was founded on 1 April 1976 under the Home Rule of the Faroe Islands. On 16 December 2005, it became a public joint stock company under the name P/F Postverk Føroya (retroactive from 1 January 2005). The number of employees working at Posta is 120. There are 17 post offices and parcel shops servicing the 18,000 households and 54,000 inhabitants in the Faroe Islands. Name The Faroese name ' uses the genitive form of the country's name ' (Faroes), thus ' without the final '. The name means literally "Postal works of the Faroes", while the word for post or mail is '. In August 2009, changed its name to Posta. Many synonyms are officially allowed for the Faroese post: * ' * ' ("The Postwork") * ' ("Faroes' Postwork") * ' ("Post") * ' ("The Post") Postal history Skjúts Before regular boat service was established between the islands, a special transport system was required to enable people from the different islands to exc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiríkr Hákonarson
Erik Hakonsson, also known as Eric of Hlathir or Eric of Norway, (, 960s – 1020s) was Earl of Lade, Governor of Norway and Earl of Northumbria. He was the son of Earl Hákon Sigurðarson and brother of the legendary Aud Haakonsdottir of Lade. He participated in the Battle of Hjörungavágr, the Battle of Svolder and the conquest of England by King Canute the Great. Name Eric is referred to in various ways in the medieval sources and by modern scholars. He most commonly witnessed charters as ''Yric dux'' ("Duke Eric") but his name is also spelled ''Yric'', ''Yrric'', ''Iric'', ''Eiric'' or ''Eric'' in 11th-century Latin and Old English sources. In Old Norse sources, using normalized orthography, he is most commonly ''Eiríkr jarl'' ("Earl Eric") or ''Eiríkr jarl Hákonarson'', but sometimes as ''Eirekr''. Modern historians usually use a variant of Eiríkr/Eirik/Eric and his patronym, Hákonarson/Hakonarson/Hakonson, meaning "son of Haakon". In modern Norwegian, it would be ''E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Svolder
The Battle of Svolder (''Svold'' or ''Swold'') was a large naval battle during the Viking age, fought in September 999 or 1000 in the western Baltic Sea between King Olaf of Norway and an alliance of the Kings of Denmark and Sweden and Olaf's enemies in Norway. The backdrop of the battle was the unification of Norway into a single independent state after longstanding Danish efforts to control the country, combined with the spread of Christianity in Scandinavia. King Olaf Tryggvason was sailing to, or home from, an expedition in Wendland (Pomerania), when he was ambushed by an alliance of Svein Forkbeard, King of Denmark, Olof Skötkonung (also known as Olaf Eiríksson or Olaf the Swede), King of Sweden, and Eirik Hákonarson, Jarl of Lade. According to the Saga of King Olaf I Tryggvason, he had 60 warships plus the contribution of 11 warships from the Jomvikingsbr> His ships were captured one by one, last of all the '' Ormen Lange (longship), Ormen Lange'', which Jarl Eirik c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
