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8%, in Húsavík (pop. 54); there, or 8%, inSkúgvoy
(pop. 57); one, or 3%, in Dalur (pop. 49); one, or
3%, in Skarvanes (pop. 18); and none on Stóra
Dímun (pop. 13). These population figures are
from the 1801 census.
9. This is especially true of his earlier collecting, when
in addition to obtaining »Sjúrðar kvæði« (456 st.)
and »Sniolvs kvæði« (606 st.) from out-of-towners,
he also picked up »Jvint Herintsson« (352 st.), »Ó1-
uvu kvæði« (206 st.), »Arngríms synir« (170 st.),
and »Mirmans kvæði« (170 st.).
10. In 1801, for example, the royal tenant at undir
Skarði had three servants: Joen Magnussen, 33
years of age, from Stóra Dímun; Anna Simonsdatt-
er, 70, from Skarvanes; and Katrina Pedersdatter,
21, from somewhere outside the parish.
11. For detailed information concerning the Royal
leaseholdings in the Faroes, see Anton Degn, Fær-
øske Kongsbønder 1584—1884 (Tórshavn, 1945).
12. For informative commentary and a text of this bal-
lad, »Markusartáttur« (CCF 230, from ca. 1815),
see Clementsen, Søga og skemt av Sandi, pp.
175-186.
13. On Sandoy the churchbooks contain no records
concerning the arrival and departure of village res-
idents until after 1816.
14. It may well be that Clemensen was in possession of
a written text of this ballad, but it seems even more
likely that he knew it by heart and had perhaps even
helped his cousin to perform it in the dance, as is so
commonly done in Faroese tradition, especially
when the foresinger is'young or has a weak voice.
15. The only exceptions to this pattern are Birgitte
Andersdatter, whose home at undir Brekkuni was
not in the immediate neighborhood of í Króki, and
the servant Morten Olesen, who lived at undir
Reynum.
16. The censuses of 1801 and 1834 show that the com-
plement of non-family members at í Todnesi on
these occasions was twelve or more.
17. This is the earliest evidence of the impact of Lyng-
bye’s edition of the ballads about Sigurd the Drag-
on-Slayer in oral tradition in the Faroes.
18. This ballad has been collected by Mortan Nolsøe
and deposited in the archives of the Fróðskaparset-
ur Føroya. For a summary of the ballad action, see
The Types of the Scandinavian Medieval Ballad,
edited by Bengt R. Jonsson, Svale Solheim, and
Eva Danielsen (Oslo, Bergen, and Tromsø, 1978),
p. 253.
19. Clementsen, Søgaogskemtav Sandi, pp. 186-187.
20. In Skøran 3, no. 1 (1985), the editor made the fol-
lowing comment about the previous year’s táttur-
collecting competition sponsored by the Fróðskap-
arsetur Føroya: »Mar»y tættir have been recorded
and preserved, but not all. Some have been con-
sjdered too personal or malicious, so that it was not
always possible to perform them in the dance or to
write them down.« (p.7, my translation).
21. Clementsen, Søga og skemt av Sandi, p. 170.
22. Ibid., p. 175.
23. In an interview with Mortan Nolsøe in April of 1970
(FMD BS 347 in the archives of the Tjóðlívsnevndin
in Tórshavn), Leifur Tróndarson of á Trøð in Skála-
vík discussed what he had been told about »Frúgvin
01rina« by his father, Tróndur Pedersen (born
1846), who was the grandnephew of Poul Pedersen,
Clemensen’s informant. The only other example of
a vøggugáva is also from Skálavík tradition (see
Mortan Nolsøe, »Ein rímnaflokkur í føroyskari
tungulist«? Fróðskaparrit 24 (1976); 48.).
24. Hjalt, Sands søga, p.119.
25. According to the police protocol for Sandoy Coun-
ty, Jacobsen’s younger brother was charged in April
of 1822 with having begotten an illegitemate child
on another servant at Dalsgarður in Skálavík. The
lists of departures and arrivals in the Sandoy
churchbook tells us that this same brother ran away
from service at Dalsgarður two months later and
took refuge in Sandur with the royal tenant Joen
Mortensen of í Trøðum.
26. Clemensens mistakenly lists Sunnevad Joensdatter
in the »Sandoyarbók« register as a resident of
Skálavík.
27. J.G. Forchhammcr, Rejse til Færøerne. Dagbog28.
April til 21. August 1821, edited by Ad. Clement
(Copenhagen, 1927), pp. 47-8.
Patricia Conroy
Department of Scandinavian
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195
U.S.A.