Pictures of Faroe Islands [Archive] - The Apricity Forum: A European Cultural Community

Baldur

01-16-2015, 09:33 AM

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Baldur

01-16-2015, 09:42 AM

VIKING LIFE IN THE STORM-CURSED FAEROES; National Geographic 1930

“The Faeroes remain practically unchanged by modern civilization and untouched by the tourist. Modern civilization can find no foothold on their windy cliffs; there life can exist only when modeled on ancient, primitive patterns. And so the islanders, forever wrestling with waves and winds, have little time for the tourist or his money. Like the giant battle fleet of some latter-day Thor, The Faeroes ride the stormy Atlantic, straining each at its anchor.”

- National Geographic - 1930:

So does the Danish photographer Leo Hansen describe the Faroe Islands, in an article in the National Geographic from November 1930. In the article, Hansen writes about his frequent trips to the Faroes to take photographs, and introduces the magazine’s American readers to the islands’ culture and nature and the islanders’ struggle for livelihood. The article is illustrated with a treasure trove of Hansen’s own photographs, some of which you can see here below.

The pictures are taken in the 1930s by Leo Hansen for National Geographic. Read full article here:
http://www.jenskjeld.info/artikler/NationalGeographic_November_1930.pdf
All rights to the pictures have beenn granted by Peder Leo Hansen, son of Leo Hansen

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PROUD OF HIS ROCKY ISLAND AND ANCIENT LANGUAGE.

Higher wages and an easier life on the continent cannot lure the Faeroe farmer from his sod-roofed house, his thin soil that will grow no grain save barley, and his flock of sheep that suffers as much as he in the gales that spray the black rocks and pastures with the salt spume of a raging sea. When he cannot find a sheep, he knows what has happened: the wind has blown it over a cliff.

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MEN CLING TO OLD FAEROE STYLES MORE STEADFASTLY THAN THE WOMEN.

Shoes with buckles, black knee breeches, and short jacket, decorated with rows of bright buttons, and a soft wool “liberty” cap striped red and dark blue or black, are the vogue for Sabbath and holidays. The man on the left wears the workaday sheepskin slippers tied with woolen strings.
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THORSHAVN, CAPITAL AND CHIEF PORT OF THE FAEROES.

The old part of Thorshavn is picturesque, crowded, cluttered and slightly dirty; the new part is hygienic, modern and less picturesque. Corrugated iron roofs of the new buildings may be better to live under, but they cannot please the eye like an old sod roof colorful with green grass and flowers. Although all wood must be imported, the islanders follow in the footsteps of their Viking ancestors, building homes of timber instead of native rock. Even the chimneys are of wood.
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RUGGED LIVING DIMINISHES NOT A WHIT THE NORSE BEAUTY OF THE FAEROE WOMEN.

Spinning, dyeing wool, weaving, knitting, cooking, washing and drying codfish, carrying on when their husbands and sons are killed on the sea or on the cliffs, are the lot of the native mothers and daughters. Their only amusements are saga singing in wintertime and dancing the native dance. Often, when storms howl down on the islands, blotting out even the rock walls barricading the house, entire families hug the fire for weeks at a time, never venturing outside
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THE SMELL OF FRESH SALTED COD PERVADES THE WHARVES.

When the men bring in their fresh, cleaned catch their work is ended. Faeroe women unload the ships, wash the fish, and, with the help of old men and children, dry it in the fitful sunshine.
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IT TAKES TWO MONTHS TO DRY A CODFISH IN THE FAEROES.

When the sun comes out, everyone hurries to spread the slabs of fish on the stony beach. Every evening and every time rain threatens, the fish must be stacked up again, under shelter.
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A COD FSHERMAN LANDS A HALIBUT

Occasionally the man who throws his hook and line overboard for a 5- to 25-pound cod pulls up instead a halibut that may weigh as much as 600 pounds.
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EVERY FAEROE GIRL LEARNS TO KNIT, EVERY BOY TO ROW A BOAT
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HOME OF THE VIKINGS

Kirkebøs farmhouse is the world's oldest still inhabited wooden house. Built Over 900 years ago
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TWENTIETH-CENTURY VIKING BOATS LINE UP FOR A RACE.

Narrow-waisted, pointed and upcurved in stem and stern, Faeroe rowing boats to-day show their direct descent from the Viking raiders in which Norsemen a thousand years ago swept down on England and northwest France and even sailed to America. To such boats The Faeroe islanders dashed on Sunday, six weeks ago, abandoning church services, when the screaming sirens announced the approach of grind whales. Even the minister joined in the wholesale killing of a school of 100, one of the largest kills in many years.
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The roots back to the vikings can still today be seen in the handcraft of today's wooden boats. Here one of these boats is sailing under the cliffs, some f which tower twice as high as the New York's Chrysler Building
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WORLDS MOST ENDANGERED SPECIES - THE FAROESE HORSE

He is unique. The Faroese horse. Small, but tight and strong, and also very calm and easygoing. Just like the people of the Faroe Islands. But in the 1930s, the horse that has roots ranging thousands of years back, was almost totally extinct. Only a dozen were left.

But through intense and dedicated work by passionate people they have managed to increase the total population to just about 70 Faroese horses. But that still means they are still threatened and rank as the 6th most endangered species on this planet.

Every 29th of July you can see them run and compete during the yearly derby at Ólavsøka 29th of July
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The Islands are 18 and majestic
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Village of Sumba looks out on a rare calm sea
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