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A VIKING-AGE SHIELING IN SKARÐSVÍK, FUGLOY, FAROE ISLANDS
Archaeology, University College Cork, for his critical
comments and for improving our English.
Notes
1. Letter of March 29th 1988 from Stummann Hansen
to Føroya Fornminnissavn with undated note by Hans
David Matras attached. Føroya Fornminnissavn j.nr.
29-94-88-46. Símun Hansen, in 1971, stated about
Skarðdsvík: “in the bay there is a plain which they
call inni í skála; now it is a sheep-shelter, but is
does not look like an ordinary sheep-shelter. It has
rather served as shelter for those who have herded
the cows in such a remote place” (Hansen 1971, 101
- authors’ translation from Faroese). It is hard to say
if it is this site he refers to.
2. These structures were also recorded during the visit
in July 2001.
3. The exact location (GPS) of the site is N 62°20.824
-W 006° 18.430 (WGS 84).
4. “The girl then (or afterwards) comes, and the son
with her, out of the fort (lios) to the place for milking
cows (or byre or cowshed) which was at Sliab Miss to
the south”, and “Mail Ruain of Tamhlacht (Tallaght)
went once to his cow-milking place (or byre or
cowshed), a stock (or tree stump or log or block or
small tillage plot or outcrop) in Sliabh Mairgge”.
The authors owe their thanks to Dr. Neil Buttimer of
the Department of Modern lrish, University College
Cork, for the translation of these quotations from
Medieval Irish into English.
5. The authors want to thank Breandán O Cíobháin for
kindly providing us with the informations on these
examples. According to Ó Cíobháin further examples
from various parts of Ireland could undoubtedly be
Íisted.
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