In the village of Kvívík, one of the oldest settlements of the Faroes, visiting friends on Streymoy, the island’s west coast. Before I parked my car, I – as always – slowly followed the main village road, kind of orbiting around the church while I admired the view and the changing sight lines, feeling vindicated: Kvívík sure is a cozy place. The small river Stórá flows straight into the sea. The creek’s waters behaved in an easygoing manner that day, calm, nonetheless had conducted itself wild and hastily on numerous other occasions, tree-guarded all the same. Old trunks and branches in a village that hosts an excavation site dating from the Viking age. The contours of house walls are visible again. Viking toys have been found, wooden toy horses and boats, also articles of daily use and ornamental pieces. Nowadays, they are part of the permanent exhibition of the National Museum of the Faroe Islands in the slow-paced capital Tórshavn.
Exhibits: National Museum of the Faroe Islands. Viking Faroes Paper: Excavation details