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WORKS IN ENGLISH FROM AND ABOUT THE FAROE ISLANDS
020: Árnason, Kristján: How to Meet the
European Standard: Word Stress in Faroese
and Icelandic
in: Nordlyd. Tromsø (Tromsø University), vol.
24, 1996, pp. 1-22
<”The purpose of this paper is to investigate con-
trastively the stress systems of Icelandic and Faroese
which have become unique among modern Western
European languages in having initial stress as the
rule for at least a substantial part of their vocabu-
lary”. Quoted from introduction to above paper>
021: Arter, David: Scandinavian politics
today
Manchester, New York (Manchester University
Press) 1999, xiv, 366 pp., 1 map
<The Faroes on pp. 38-39 (a brief oulline of the
independence movement from 1900 onwards) and
passim>
022: Ashe, Geoffrey: Land to the West. St
Brendan’s Voyage to America
London (Collins St James’s Place) 1962, 352
pp., 4 plates, references
<In order to establish the reliablity of the famous
"Navigatio Sancti Brendani” as an historical
source, the author examines the literary evidence
and visits the places allegedly mentioned in the
"Navigatio”, Ireland, the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland
and Newfoundland>
>■ Reviewed in:
TLS, May 18, 1962, p. 354 (Anon., ”Before
Columbus?”)
The New York Times, July 4, 1962, p. 15
(Orville Prescott, under the title ”Books of the
Times”)
023: Askedal, John Ole: ‘Oblique Subjects’,
Structural and Lexical Case Marking
in: Faarlund, Jan Terje (ed.): Grammatical
Relations in Change. Amsterdam (Benjamins)
2001 (= Studies in Language Companion
Series; 56), pp. 65-97, references
<Subtitle: ”Some Thoughts on Case Assignment in
North Germanic and German”. An attempt to give
an integrated account of certain developments in
North Germanic snytax witli an emphasis on Modern
Icelandic and Faroese>
024: Atlantic Margin prospectivity growing
- BP Amoco field development continues
as firm eyes tracts in far western UK and
Faroese waters
in: Offshore. Vol. 60, 2000, no. 8, pp. 51-52,
54, 202, illustrations
<On the activities of BP Amoco in the West of
Shetland area, including its participation in the first
Faroes licensing round>
025: Attempt to blow up Faroe parliament
in: The Times, Sept. 22, 1945, p. 4
<An attempt by disaffected members of the Faroese
home rule party to blow up the Faroese Løgting
with dynamite on Sept. 18, 1945, caused only minor
damage>
026: Austin, Gertrude: The Faroe Islands
in: The Southern Workman. Hampton, Virginia,
vol. 40, June-July 1911, pp. 345-353, 397-401,
6 b/w-photographs
<An account of a journey in the summer of 1910>
027: Austin, John: Niels R. Finsen (1860-
1904). The Founder of Phototherapy
in: ”238”. Journal ol' the Faroe Islands Study
Circle, [Vol. 3], No. I, November 1999, pp.
13-14, illustrations
<Biographical sketch>