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Svinehold pá Færøerne i ældre tid
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SUMMARY
The article is about keeping swine in the Faroes in old times. In his
book about the place-names in the Norðuroyar Chr. Matras tells us,
that the place-names show that hogs have been kept here from the oldest
time up to the reformation. This is confirmed by the finding of bones
of swine from old times at several places, and in the litterature swine-
keeping is mentioned by Peder Clausen Friis (1592) and Jens Lauridsen
Wolf (1651).
The about 50 place-names with relation to keeping of swine, which
are mentioned in the article, are telling us, that hogs have been kept
both in the infield (often near the houses) and in the outfield (sometimes
far away).
According to the legend of Snopprikkur from the 16th century food
was carried out to the pigs in the outfield. It is also told here that in
addition to remains from the housekeeping the hogs were fed with malt.
The import of malt is mentioned in the Faroese court-book 1615—54,
but only in little quantities, so it must have been impossible to feed many
hogs with malt only. Clausen Friis tells that the pigs were fed with
»tormentilla« (Potentila erecta). The Faroese name of this plant being
bark it is probable that the author has meant svínabark (Ranunculus sp.).
Besides plants hogs are eating slugs, insects and worms, and in some
other countries they often were fed with fish. Robert Cowie tells that
so was with the Shetland hogs.