Viking States : Atlantic Islands



A.) The Faroe Islands

Discovered by the Vikings in the late 8th century, settled ca. 825. The island group's Thing assembled at TINGANES, close to which the island group's bishopric was established at Kirkjubodur. The Faroe islands were dependent on Norway since 895.






EXTERNAL
FILES 		Faroese History, from Randburg.com, encyclopedic
The Faroes, from the Viking Network
REFERENCE The North Atlantic Saga, in : Historical Atlas of the Vikings, by John Haywood, London : Penguins 1995, pp.86-99, illustrated, concise, scholarly


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