Norðlýsið is a Faroese newspaper, which has a mainly local northern focus on its news.
The Faroe Islands, or the Faeroe Islands, is a North Atlantic archipelago located 200 miles (320 km) north-northwest of the United Kingdom and about halfway between Norway and Iceland—are an autonomous country of the Kingdom of Denmark. Total area is about 1,400 square kilometres (540 sq mi) with a population of 50,322 in October 2017.
Same-sex marriage in Denmark has been legal since 15 June 2012. A bill for legalization, introduced by the Government of Helle Thorning-Schmidt, was approved by the Folketing (Parliament) on 7 June 2012 and received royal assent by Queen Margrethe II on 12 June 2012. Same-sex couples were previously recognized through registered partnerships. Denmark was the eleventh country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
Kristian Blak, originally from Fredericia, Denmark, lives in the Faroe Islands where he is a composer, musician, and record executive. He is the founder of the Nordic musical ensemble Yggdrasil. He has worked with sounds in the Faroese nature in several compositions. These include concerts in caves and other natural "concert halls" in the Faroe Islands. He has composed solo instrumental works, chamber music, choral works and symphonic music, for example the ballad Harra Pætur og Elinborg. In 2010 Queen Margrethe of Denmark visited the Faroe Islands, and one of the events she visited was a grotto concert in Klæmintsgjógv by Kristian Blak and other musicians. The cave is 50 meter high and the sea in the cave is around 400 meter deep. There are some places inside the cave where the musicians can stand with their instruments and give a concert to the audience in the boats.
The Faroese media consists of several newspapers, radio stations, magazines, as well as a local TV station, Kringvarp Føroya.
Astrid Jóhanna Andreasen is a Faroese textile and graphical artist, marine researcher and postage stamp designer. As a scientific illustrator, she specialises in marine animals.
Oyggjatíðindi is Faroese an online news website and an online newspaper released every Friday. Up until September 2011 Oyggjatíðindi was also a printed newspaper, but due to obvious advantages entailed by the use of digital platforms the shift to the online new release was inevitable.
Tvøroyrar Bóltfelag is a Faroese football club from Tvøroyri, currently playing in the Effodeildin, the top tier of Faroese football. TB Tvøroyri is the oldest football club in the Faroe Islands, and also one of the oldest in the Danish Realm, in which the Faroe Islands are a self-governing country.
The Faroe Islands national under-21 football team are a feeder team to the Faroe Islands national football team. The Faroe Islands U21 team was first formed in 2006 and took part in UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying for the first time in 2007 and 2008. Before this there was no step between the U-19 team and the senior team.
Heiðrik á Heygumpronounced [ˈhaɪ:ɹɪk ˈɔ ˈheɪ:jʊn] is a Faroese artist, filmmaker and musician, who currently lives in Iceland. He is known for several works, i.e. his most recent award-winning short film Skuld (Guilt) and for the electro pop album An Invisible Gun, and the award-winning short film Mítt Rúm, for which he won the NUFF prize, a Nordic film award for young directors. Other short films and music videos directed by á Heygum include Aldur (Waves) and Sigarett. He is also known for directing the music videos "True Love" and "Rain" by Eivør and Aldan reyð" by ORKA. The music video True Love sung by Eivør and directed by Heiðrik was nominated for the Berlin Music Video Awards 2014.
FC Suðuroy is a Faroese football club which was founded in January 2010 and consists currently of the former clubs VB and Sumba, which merged in 2005 to form VB/Sumba. FC Suðuroy's first team in the men's championship competes in the 1. deild in 2014. All teams play their home games at the á Eiðinum Stadium in Vágur. The club logo was designed by the photographer Rógvi Nolsøe Johansen in 2010, the same year he won the competition to design a logo for the club.
Royn Hvalba or Bóltfelagið Royn, or just Royn, is a Faroese football and sports association from Hvalba in Suðuroy, founded 23 October 1923. The Chairman for Royn Hvalba is Gunnhild Mortensen. Manager is Eyðun Gullok Svalbard. Royn has a team in the Faroese second division. Royn also has teams for girls and boys, in 2012 they had a team for girls under 12, a team for boys U8 and one for boys U10. Royn and TB Tvøroyri now have a new manager for all the youth teams of the two clubs. Men over 35 have their own team. The women had their own team earlier. Royn is one of three football associations in the island Suðuroy. The other two football clubs are FC Suðuroy with base in Vágur and TB Tvøroyri from Tvøroyri. Royn Hvalba plays its home matches on the football field in Hvalba, which is a grass field.
John Ryan until 1999 named John Ryan Hansen is a Faroese former international footballer who played as a midfielder. Hansen spent his entire club career with KÍ Klaksvík. He played three matches for the Faroe Islands national football team from 1992 to 1999.
Aleksandar Đorđević is a football coach and former player.
Páll Klettskarð is Faroese striker playing for Italian club Miedź Legnica and the Faroe Islands national team.
Karin Rannvá Kjølbro is a former Faroese politician and social worker. She was one of the pioneers amongst Faroese women in politics, being one of the two first women who were elected to the Løgting, which happened in 1978 along with Jona Henriksen.
2015 Faroe Islands Premier League was the 73rd season of top-tier football on the Faroe Islands. For sponsorship reasons, it is known as Effodeildin. B36 Tórshavn were the defending champions, having won their tenth Faroese title last season.
General elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 1 September 2015. Elections for the Danish Folketing were held beforehand on 18 June.
Símun Petur Zachariasen was a Faroese teacher, editor, and politician for the Home Rule Party.
TB/FC Suðuroy/Royn was a Faroese football club based in Trongisvágur. The team was a result of a merger between all three clubs from the island of Suðuroy: Tvøroyrar Bóltfelag, FC Suðuroy and Royn Hvalba. The agreement about the merger was so late that there was not enough time to find a new name and identity for the club, so the name was a combination of all three names of the clubs. The name was too long to use, so the media started to use the word Suðuroyarliðið instead, which means The team from Suðuroy and the supporters and the chairmen had agreed upon using the word Suðringar, which means People of Suðuroy.
Krista Mørkøre is a Faroe Islander swimmer, who competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics as the only member of her country's delegation.
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