Archaeologia Islandica - 01.01.2006, Page 30

Steffen Stummann Hansen and John Sheehan
“prayer-house”. This type of monument
had attracted rather little attention before
Dahl started recording them. However, the
Danish antiquarian, Daniel Bruun (1846-
1932), who visited the Faroe Islands on
several occasions, did show an interest in
them , and noted: “In the Catholic peri-
od there were besides churches at many
places, so-called „Bonnehuse”, of which
there can still be seen remains on some
Figure 1. Map of the Faroe Islands with sites mentioned in the text indicated. Computer-graphics:
I. Seiten.
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