Joen Danielsen Known as ''Kvívíks-Jógvan (Jógvan of Kvívík)'', (11 June 1843,

Kvívík Kvívík ( da, Kvivig) is a village on the west coast of Streymoy in the Faroe Islands, in the eponymous municipality of ''Kvívík''. History Kvívík is one of the oldest settlements in the Faroes and excavations have shown the remains of Viki ...

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– 2 May 1926). He married and settled in the town of

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. Kvívíks-Jógvan was one of the earliest traditional Faroese poets to write poems in the Faroese language. Growing up together with J. P. Gregoriussen in the town of Kvívík when V. U. Hammershaimb was

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there, he taught himself to read Faroese by borrowing books from Mr. Hammershaimb. Among the many poems he wrote, Jógvan also wrote traditional Faroese ballads, the most famous being "Kópakvæðið" (the ballad of the

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) which consists of 68 verses. This ballad is based on a Faroese

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about seals coming ashore to dance in

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on 7 January, which locally is known as "old christmas" which was celebrated in accordance with the

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Works

* ''Yrkingar''. 1926 (Poems and Ballads, in Faroese)

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19th-century Faroese people 1843 births 1926 deaths Faroese male poets Faroese songwriters Faroese-language poets People from Kvívík {{faroes-bio-stub