The Faroe Islands' Big Party – Nya Dagbladet

The Faroe Islands consist of 18 smaller islands, mostly bordered by high mountains and narrow fjords in the North Atlantic between Scotland, Norway and Iceland, with a population of around 55,000. Faroese is a unique small Nordic language that is directly descended from the Old Norse spoken by the Norsemen who settled on the islands 1,200 years ago. Formally, the archipelago belongs to the Kingdom of Denmark, but it has been granted extensive se…