Hósvík (Settlement)

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Hósvík has 340 inhabitants and covers 19 merkur of copyhold land distributed between four copyhold tenants. The sheep population consists of 486 animals.

The village, which is called Thorsvig in Danish, was apparently a pagan place of sacrifice. The originally small village began to grow at the same time as the sea fishing started and provided new opportunities for income. Hósvík was its own municipality until 2004 when it became part of Sunda Kommuna.

The church dates from 1929 and was designed by Einar Hansen and built in concrete. The first school was built in 1897 and has been expanded several times, most recently in 2008, and has capacity to teach grades 1‑3, after which the pupils continue in the municipality’s central school in Oyrarbakki.

Hósvíkar Róðrarfelag is the village’s rowing association.

There is a small port where the shipping company P/F Thor is headquartered.

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  • Jóan Pauli Joensen

    (b. 1945) D.Phil. in History and D.Phil. in Ethnology. Professor Emeritus and adjunct professor at the University of the Faroe Islands and former rector of the University of the Faroe Islands.