Fugloy

Fugloy /(in Danish: Fuglø , literally: the island-bird ) is Eastern of the eighteen islands forming the archipelago of the Féroé and belongs geographically to the area of the islands of North.

Many tops: 2
Villages: Hattarvík (17 hab.), Kirkja (28 hab.)

There are several mountains on Fugloy: Mikla (420m), Klubbin (621m) and Norðberg (549m). The coordinates of the island are:

latitude: 62°20' NR
longitude: 6° 18 ' O

Fugloy is smallest of the " islands of Nord". It is separated from the island close to Svínoy by the Fugloyarfjørður and is daily connected by ferry to the village of Hvannasund on Viðoy. In addition, the island is also atteignable by helicopter three times per week with the company Atlantic Airways.

History

The island is inhabited since the time of the Viking S. In 1930,230 people lived still here. But Fugloy could not, following the example other islands, to escape the depopulation. Proof is the case of the village of Hattarvík where in 2004 lived permanently only 5 elderly. As for Kirkja, one always wonders until when the village is inhabited.

However, the State authorized of many efforts for réfréner this tendency. In the years 1960, the islanders accepted electricity. In the years 1980, a road connecting the two villages of the island was built. The fact that each village has its own church can perhaps be explained by the fact why the original way was very difficult to use.

Also in the years 1980, was set up a service of helicopters, initially with the company Strandfaraskip Landsins then Atlantic Airways, which must ensure the provisioning by all times. The way with the boat postal Másin is regarded as one of the more " large aventures" that one can live in the archipelago. Also, even if time is with the good shape, the sea appears agitated and consequently dangerous. December 7th 1941, for example, the vapor S Sauternes ran in Fugloyarfjørður.

As the name of the island the advertisement, the island is a good place of observation of the birds. It is also a place inviting to quietude and the excursion.

Caption floating island

Formerly, it was believed that Fugloy was a floating island. The philologist féringien Jakob Jakobsen describes it as follows:

Fugloy was originally a floating island. Some men rowed towards it and jetètent a piece of steel to him so that it is anchored in sea-beds. But nothing made there. Many a Troll S was present on the slopes of the island. They packed all that the men had brought and threw it to the sea.

One then gathered all the pastors of the country. They made the voyage to the island which they fixed firmly so that it does not disappear. One of them threw there a bible under the attentive glance of all the others.

the company succeeded. The men overcame the trolls who found themselves transformed into grass tufts. These grass tufts were at the time towards the slopes of the village of Kirkja but the undertow submerged them thereafter.

Another myth is that of the " floksmenn" , a group of separatists which lived with the Middle Ages with Hattarvík. Most known of them were the gangsters " Høgni Nev" , " Rógvi Skel" and " Hálvdan Úlvsson" who - with the complicity of " Sjúrður við Kellingará" village close to Kirkja - tyrannized and controlled partially north of the Faroe Islands. The four men were condemned to death although a possibility of grace was planned for Sjúrður. But this last wished to be killed with these companions.

Literature

Jakob Jakobsen : Færøske Folkesagn og Æventyr . Hrsg.: Samfund til Udgivelse af gammel nordisk Litteratur, Kopenhagen: 1898-1901. (Legend of the floating island)
P.O. Hansen: Fuglø Odense: OAB-Tryk, 1983. (on Danish, 78 pages, all illustrated, partly in colors, 22x30 cm)

Bonds

Faroeislands.dk: Hattarvík (in English, information and photographs)
Faroeislands.dk: Kirkja (in English, information and photographs)
Fugloy.fo - Official homepage (in féringien, construction to the 18.07.2006)
Faroestamps.fo on Fugloy (German, English, French, Danish and féringien - in construction)
Personal site

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