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A DANE AND THE DAWNING OF FAROESE ARCHAEOLOGY
Fig. 14. Fransatoftir’ before excavation on October 21st 1932. Hatt wrote in his notebook: ‘Today I photographed
(....) Fransatoftirfrom the east and the bigger ruin after excavation’ (author’s translation). Photo: Gudmund Hatt.
Private, the autlwr.
Despite their short stay in the Faroe Is-
lands the Hatt couple managed to make
good friends there. Thus they kept in con-
tact with Liitzen, the agricultural adviser,
and his family, the last Christmas card be-
tween them preserved dating to 1956 [6].
The Hatt couple, however, never returned
to Faroe (Fig. 14).
The first ‘professional’
Faroese excavation
It has undoubtedly been a welcome oppor-
tunity for Hatt to join an archaeological ex-
cavation with the Antiquarian Society. On
October 21 st Hatt wrote in his notebook: ‘I
handed over my notes and measurements to
Jacobsen, the librarian, who will finish the
excavation, do the levels and (....) publish
an article on „Fransatoftir”’.
In a Christmas greeting of December
15th 1932, Mads Andreas Jacobsen wrote
to Hatt: ‘We have now done the levels at
“Fransatoftir”. H. J. Jacobsen, a young
graduate in agriculture, assisted but we
have had no time to plan the houses. Unfor-
tunately the photography was unsuccessful