Kvívík

	Kvívík; [ ˈkʰvʊivʊik ]; ( Danish Kvivig );
	Kvívík; [ ˈkʰvʊivʊik ]; ( Danish Kvivig );
position	62 ° 7 ′ N , 7 ° 4 ′ W Coordinates: 62 ° 7 ′ 14 " N , 7 ° 4 ′ 4" W
Resident; rank	381 (2015);
Commune	Kvívíkar kommuna
Post Code	FO 340
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Grammar; dative (in / from ...); genitive (after ...)	; í / úr Kvívík;

Kvívík [ ˈkʰvʊivʊik ] ( Danish name : Kvivig , in older sources also Quivig ) is a place and a municipality on the Faroe Islands . The place is on the west coast of the main island Streymoy .

The excavation from the Viking Age in the town center.

history

Excavations of two long houses, one was a residential building and the other a stable, from 1941 onwards it was possible to prove that the place has been inhabited on the Faroe Islands since the Viking Age . Kvívík is one of the oldest places on the islands. Further excavations followed, where a whole range of objects were found that are now exhibited in the National Museum in Tórshavn . Spinning whorls , fishing gear, oil lamps and children's toys (horses and boats) show something about life during this time. Women's jewelry in the form of pearls was also found. Noteworthy is a women's shoe, the counterpart of which was found in Paris.

The center of Kvívík with the characteristic white tower of the stone church from 1903.

The stone church was consecrated on December 13, 1903 and replaced an old wooden church from 1838 , as it became too small in view of the increased population. Here on December 31, 1855, the newly appointed pastor VU Hammershaimb read from the Gospel - in Faroese , a scandal at the time, since Danish was the only church language. The poet Jógvan Dánialsson (Joen Danielsen), also known as Kvívíks-Jógvan or Kvívíkar Jógvan , learned to read the Faroese language from Kvívík from Hammershaimb . Among other things, around 1890 he wrote the now widely known 68-stanza Faroese ballad "Kópakvæðið". There is a legend about a farmer from Mikladalur who, on the thirteenth night , steals this skin and locks it away from a dancing and partying female seal who has transformed into a woman by shedding her fur. The female seal, transformed into a human being, who cannot go back into the sea without fur, is thereby bound to him and he takes her as a woman. In the end, however, the woman manages to get the fur back in an unguarded moment and she returns to the sea.

Personalities

Jógvan Dánialsson (1843–1926), a Faroese poet.
JP Gregoriussen (1845–1901), a Faroese poet

The municipality of Kvívík

Location of Kvívíkar kommuna on the Faroe Islands map.

The places Leynar , Skælingur , Stykkið and Válur / Nesið also belong to the "Kvívíker municipality" ( Kvívíkar kommuna ) . At the end of 2002 the municipality had a total of exactly 580 inhabitants. Kvívík is located south of the larger town of Vestmanna on both sides of a small bay and is divided by the Stórá stream .

photos

Kvívík around 1900
Kvívík in 2012
Kvívík: stone church and village
Kvívík
Day care center "Áarlon"
Excavation from the Viking Age
A horse as a children's toy from the Viking Age. It was carved out of driftwood, found during excavations in Kvívík in 1957 and is now in the National Museum in Tórshavn .
Carved toy wooden boat from the Viking Age, found during excavations in Kvívík