
Gøta (Settlements)
Gøta, mentioned in Hundabrævið, is a collective name for the three markatal settlements of Norðragøta, Gøtugjógv and Syðrugøta, which face the Gøtuví...

Theater on the Faroe Islands
The earliest plays known in the Faroe Islands are described in Jens Christian Svabos’ account of a trip to the Faroe Islands in 1781‑82. He wrote that young...

G! Festival
In the 1990s, an unusually large number of musicians in Gøta wanted to take their music a little further than they had done so far. In 1998, they instigated th...

Gøtu Fornminnisfelag (Museum Association)
In 1969, Arnleyg Jacobsen and her husband, Tummas Jacobsen, took the initiative to found the museum association Gøtu Fornminnisfelag. The restoration of the ne...

1536-1850 on the Faroe Islands
The Reformation was introduced around 1538 and was fully implemented in 1540 when an Evangelical superintendent replaced the last Catholic bishop. The diocese w...