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A Visit to the Faroe Islands in 1942 by Gabriel Turville-Petre Ein Vitjan Í Føroyum Í 1942 Hjá Gabriel Turville-Petre 161 A Visit to the Faroe Islands in 1942 by Gabriel Turville-Petre Ein vitjan í Føroyum í 1942 hjá Gabriel Turville-Petre orlac Turville-Petre School of English, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Email: [email protected] Abstract Úrtak In his journal Gabriel Turville-Petre gives an Í dagbók síni greiðir Gabriel Turville-Petre frá account of his travels through the Faroe Islands sín um ferðum í Føroyum í 1942. Foreign Of - in 1942. Despatched by the Foreign Office to fice hevði sent hann avstað fyri at kanna sjón - investigate the views of the people during the armið hjá fólkinum undir bretsku hersetingini; British occupation, he met politicians such as hann hitti politikarar, m.a. Christmas Møller, Christmas Møller, Carl Aage Hilbert, Peter Carl Aage Hilbert, Petur Mohr Dam og Krist - Mohr Dam and Kristian Djurhuus, writers such ian Djurhuus, høvundar, m.a, Jóannes Paturs - as Jóannes Patursson, Símun av Skarði and son, Símun av Skarði og Janus Djurhuus eins Janus Djurhuus, as well as farmers and busi - og bóndir, handilsmenn, sjófólk og skúla lær - nessmen, boatmen and schoolteachers. He arar. Hann setur fram síni sjónarmið, ikki altíð gives his views, not always complimentary, on rós andi, um teirra persónsmenskur og mein ing - their characters and opinions. He describes the ar. Hann lýsir málið og bókmentirnar, landslag - language and literature, the scenery and (less ið og (minni eldhugaður) veðrið eins og matin, enthusiastically) the weather, as well as the sum hann fekk, m.a. skerpikjøt, og siðaarvin, food he was given, such as skerpikjøt, and tra - m.a. føroyska dansin. ditions such as the chain dance. Fróðskaparrit 64. bók 2017: 161 -182. - DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18602/fsj.v0i0.104 162 A VISIT TO THE FAROE ISLANDS IN 1942 Introduction the roots of the sagas, Myth and Religion Gabriel Turville-Petre (1908-78) 1 studied of the North (1964), described as ‘the best Icelandic at Oxford under the direction of account of Old-Norse – Icelandic mythol - J. R. R. Tolkien, and made several visits to ogy in English’, 3 Nine Norse Studies Iceland, before being appointed Lektor at (1972), and Scaldic Poetry (1976), focus - the University of Iceland and British pro- ing on the poetry of Egil Skallagrímsson. Consul in Reykjavík (1936-8). In 1941 He was awarded the title of Officer (1956) Oxford appointed him to the Vigfússon and Commander (1963) of the Icelandic Readership in Ancient Icelandic Literature Order of the Falcon, and received honorary and Antiquities (with the title of Professor doctorates from the Universities of Iceland from 1953), but he was then serving as a (1961) and Uppsala (1977); in 1973 he cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park and did not was elected Fellow of the British Acad - take up the post until after the War. In Au - emy. In 1976 the Viking Society for North - gust 1942 the Foreign Office despatched ern Research instituted an annual Turville- him to the Faroe Islands during the British Petre prize for the best student essay on occupation ‘in order to study the inhabi - Norse studies, and after his death the tants, their politics and conditions of life’. 2 Oxford English Faculty established a Evidently his main task was to report on Turville-Petre Room to house his exten - Faroese views about relationships with sive library. Britain and Denmark, and the strength of In a lecture delivered to his Foreign the wish for independence. He stayed there Office colleagues on his return, he remarks for two months. He did not generally keep on his attempts to bone up on the Faroe Is - a diary, and so this record of his visit must lands before his trip, but notes how little have been made as a background to a re - reliable information was available: ‘I had port to the Foreign Office, although it in - one book entitled A Description of Ferroe , cludes many details that would not have and this was a remarkably good book, but interested the officials. it was published in 1676 and was begin - Three months after leaving the Faroes, ning to be out of date’. 4 In his lecture he in January 1943, he married Joan Blom - gives a general description of the islands, field, who was herself a scholar of Old the people and their history, ‘part of the English and Old Icelandic. They had three flotsam and jetsam washed ashore on these sons. He visited Scandinavia many times unhospitable rocks as the waves of Viking after the war, and spent some months migration flowed over western Europe’. teaching Icelandic as Visiting Professor at He outlines religious and political history, Melbourne University in Australia, which the subjection to Norway and Denmark, he found immensely rewarding. the growing independence movements, His scholarly publications include an and their linkage with Faroese language edition of Víga Glúms Saga (1940), The and literary culture. His lecture continues: Heroic Age of Scandinavia (1951) Origins of Icelandic Literature (1953) which traces A VISIT TO THE FAROE ISLANDS IN 1942 163 These notes about the Faroese language have brought me to the modern period of Faroese politics. Early in the present century the nationalist movement began to make itself [felt]. The islanders then split up into two main political parties, called the Unionists and the Home Rulers. 5 One of the chief points at issue between them was the language question. The Unionists, moreover, wished the Faroes to remain an integral part of the Danish State. The Home Rulers, at first, demanded Home Rule for the Faroe Islands within the Danish State – though since then, their demands have increased. The founder of the Home Rule Party, and for many years its leader, was the poet and historian Mr. Jóannes Patursson. Both of these parties took seats in the Løgting and have sent representatives to Gabriel Turville-Petre. the Danish Rigsdag. 6 In 1928, the Social- Democrats 7 first won seats in the Løg - ting. At first this party showed strong nationalist tendencies, but collaboration 6, Home Rulers 4 and People’s Party 6. with the Danish Social-Democrats, who It should be noted that this was the first formed the main prop of the Danish election contested by the People’s Party, Government, seems to have modified and so the result probably did not give a their nationalism. In 1939 there was a correct idea of its strength. cleft within the Home Rule Party, The policies of the four parties in the because some of its members agreed to few months before the occupation of submit to certain economic plans which Den mark by Germany and of the Faroe the Danish Government had prepared for Islands by Britain may be summed up as the Faroe Islands, and others refused. The follows: result was that the original leader of the The unionists advocated the main - Home Rule Party, Jóannes Patursson, tenance of the status quo. The Faroes broke off from it and formed a new party were to remain an integral part of the called the People’s Party (Fólkaflokkur). Dan ish State as an Amt or county, and to In the last election which was held for the be administered by a Danish Amtmand, Løgting, in January 1940, the seats were direc tly responsible to the Danish divided as follows: Unionists 8, Socialists Govern ment in Copenhagen. They argu - 164 A VISIT TO THE FAROE ISLANDS IN 1942 ed in support of this policy that the Faroe to exploit the situation and immediately Islands enjoyed a substantial subsidy – formulated proposals for the temporary about 2 million kroner per year – from government and administration of the the Danish exchequer. In short, the islands until such time as communi ca - Union ists were a Conservative Party. The tions with the Copenhagen Government Social-Democrats modelled themselves were restored, and the Danish Govern - closely on the Social-Democrats of Den - ment were liberated from German in flu - mark, with the difference that they ence. They argued, not altogether illo gi - advocated the official use of the Faroese cal ly, that since the Danish Government language and the Faroese flag within the and the Danish Rigsdag were now under islands, and favoured the Home Rulers’ German control, the Faroe Islands, which demands for a larger measure of auto - were neutral, and intended to remain so, nomy within the Faroe Islands. could not recognise their authority. The policy of the Home Rulers was There fore it was necessary for the Faro - never made quite clear. In internal mat - ese people to devise some new system ters they agree largely with the Socialists, under which the islands should be gover - but they laid more emphasis on national - ned temporarily. The model of the sus - ism and the need for home rule. Many of pen ded Danish Constitution should be them also demand the right for the Faro - imitated as closely as possible. Above all, ese to send trade representatives abroad. the temporary Constitution should be The Home Rulers have made it clear that democratic. Therefore the county-coun - they do not necessarily wish to sever cil, or Løgting, should assume supreme connections with the Danish State. They legislative authority, thus taking over the would probably be content to obtain a functions both of the Danish Government larger measure of autonomy within it. and Parliament. The office of the Amt - The People’s Party, although they mand would remain administrative, as have not expressed it exactly in those before. But instead of being responsible words, let it be known that they desired to the Danish Government and Rigsdag, prac ti cally complete separation from the Amtmand would now be responsible Denmark.
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