Dúgvan (newspaper)

Dúgvan: title page of the first edition from 1894

Dúgvan [ ˈdɪgvan ] (Eng. "The dove") was a monthly newspaper in the Faroe Islands from January 1894 to 1928. It appeared in Danish with the subtitle Afholdsblad for Færøerne ("Abstinenzlerblatt für die Faröer").

In 1941–42 a newspaper with the same name came out, this time in Faroese .

Editors-in-chief

• 1894-1899 P. Jensen
• 1899–1900 Rasmus Christoffer Effersøe
• 1899–1907 Djóni Isaksen
• 1908–1910 Hans Andrias Djurhuus
• 1910–1915 Rasmus Christoffer Effersøe
• 1916–1925 Poul Niclasen

See also

• Føringatíðindi

Web links

• Vestnord - tíðarrit Web archive of old newspapers from the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland