Faroese people

About 83% of the Faroese people belong to the state church.

The trade monopoly was in the family's hands and it wasn't designed for the needs of the Faroese people.

Their lifestyle of tolerance served as a model for many Faroese people.

Some years ago his advise was, that Faroese people should not eat whale meat more that once a month at the most.

Faroese people are received into the Catholic Church at regular intervals, the most recent being in June, 2010.

The state church is now the Protestant Faroese People's Church.

He has been the leader of the Faroese People's Party (Fólkaflokkurin) since 2007.

Nowadays, most Faroese people are Danish citizens.

The daughter was called Sunneva Berentsdatter, and many Faroese people descend from her.

Before Útvarp Føroya was founded, the Faroese people could listen to foreign radio stations.

Most actors in Ottarsdóttir's films are Faroese people because the island maintains a rich theater scene and there are many skilled actors there.

The Faroese language is only spoken by the Faroese people of the Faroe Islands, which currently have a population of 50.000 people.

A plaque has been erected by British veterans in Tórshavn Cathedral expressing thanks for the kindness shown to them by the Faroese people during their presence.

Danielsen quit the established Faroese People's Church in 1916 and attached himself to the Brøðrasamkoman (Faroese Plymouth Brethren).

This translation was published in March 1937, a few weeks before the publication of Jákup Dahl's translation, which had been authorised by the Faroese People's Church.

If the king wouldn't agree to this proposal, the Faroese people at least wanted a man of their choice from the Islands to be in command of a ship of his own.

According to official statistics from 2002, 84.1% of the Faroese population are members of the state church, the Faroese People's Church (Fólkakirkjan), a form of Lutheranism.

This causes Faroese people to become bilingual in two very distinct North Germanic languages, making it relatively easy for them to understand the other two Mainland Scandinavian languages.

The conflict was chiefly not a struggle between the Faroese people and the Danes, but rather among the Faroese people themselves, and the positions were evolving with time.

The most common one to listen to was the National Norwegian Radio Station, which the Faroese people used to call Norðmaðurin (which means: The Norwegian or The man from Norway).

The Icelandic and Faroese people, and many people in the British Isles, are descendants of Norsemen and Vikings who emigrated from Western Norway during the Viking Age.

The first sisters arrived on the Faroe Islands in April 1931, in response to an appeal made by Cardinal Van Rossum to help the Faroese people and to re-establish the presence of the Catholic Church on the islands.

The republican coalition majority in parliament interpreted the results as a resolve by the Faroese people for full Faroese independence from Denmark and started the process of secession as well as establishing proper governing bodies for an independent Faroese nation.

This is seen in the way the Faroese people fiercely defend their traditional rights to hunt birds and animals for food, and their resentment of the people who come from more 'enlightened' countries to try and point out the 'error of their ways'to the islanders.

The pilot whale has been polluted by swimming around in the Atlantic Ocean and Faroese scientist and scientist from other countries have done a lot of research of the quality of the whale meat and of the effect it might have on Faroese people who eat it.