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A DANE AND THE DAWNING OF FAROESE ARCHAEOLOGY
Fig. 5. Mads Winther Liitzen (1877-1942) was bom in
Klaksvík. He graduated from the agricultural college
in Áv, Norway, in 1900. He was an agricultural
adviser in Faroefrom 1917 until Itis death in 1942. He
published the book ‘Landbruget paa Færøerne' in
1924. Photo: after Føroya Búnadatfelag 1962.
islands of Streymoy and Eysturoy to the
settlement (Faroese: bygd) of Selatrað 11 ]
where they were going to visit a special
person. Hatt stated in his notebook: ‘We
visited the tenant (Faroese: festari) Weihe,
who has donated most of the items stored in
the Museum in Tórshavn and who has a
strong interest in archaeology’ (author’s
translation).
It was not any tenant farmer who was
presented to Hatt by Jacobsen. A few years
earlier Andreas Weihe (1867-1946) had do-
nated a large assemblage of items to the
Museum, which had enlarged the collec-
tions considerably (Djurhuus 1944: 116)
(Fig. 7). Weihe, among other things,
showed Hatt some Neolithic artefacts, al-
legedly found in a drainage ditch (may
probably have been from Denmark). Weihe
was sad that Hatt could not stay longer, but
then decided to join them in the motorboat.
They went down Skálafjørður to the settle-
ment of Skipanes where Hatt was shown
one of the old houses.
From here they went over the mountains
to Norðragøta, where Hatt was guided into
the house, which was supposed to be stand-
ing at the place where Trond of Gøta, one of
the great figures of the ‘Saga of Faroe Is-
landers’, allegedly had his farm. Here Hatt
was shown the stones, which were said to
be the foundation stones of Trond’s original
house.
After the visit to Gøta they went back to
Skipanes and took the motorboat across
Skálafjørður to the settlement of Skáli.
Here they had coffee in a private home.
They discussed controversial statements on
the ongoing dispute between Denmark and
Norway about the sovereignty over Green-
land, presented in the Faroese newspaper
Tingakrossir [2]. In Skáli they departed
from Weihe who walked back to Selatrað
while Hatt and Jacobsen took the motor-
boat back to Tórshavn.
A trip to Klaksvík was originally sched-
uled for Thursday 20th. The evening be-
fore, however, Jacobsen and Poul Niclasen
(1889-1953), the editor of the biggest
Faroese newspaper Dimmalætting and a
close associate of Jacobsen, had turned up