Helena Patursson
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Súsanna Helena Patursson was a Faroese actress and writer, and the first political feminist in the country, particularly stressing the need for all Faroe Islanders to be able to write and learn Faroes
Helena Patursson as young lady in 1889 at the premiere of her play Veðurføst.
Kirkjubøargarður
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Kirkjubøargarður is one of the oldest still inhabited wooden houses in the world, if not the oldest. The farm itself has always been the largest in the Faroe Islands.
Helena Patursson
…national movement. Helena Patursson was born on 27 August 1864 to Poul Peder Pedersen, a wealthy farmer, and Ellen Cathrine Djonesen. She grew up on Kirkjubøargarður, Kirkjubøur, where she received private lessons with her brothers, Sverri and Jóannes. Later, she went to Copenhagen, where she learned piano and…
Kirkjubøargarður with Hestur and Sandoy in the background.
On the left: Kirkjubøargarður; on the right the ruin of Magnus Cathedral
The entrance of Roykstovan was destroyed in 1833. This true to original copy was timbered and carved by the King's Farmer Jóannes Patursson in 1907. On the top is the Norwegian Lion, indicating that the Faroes were a Norwegian colony after the Viking age.
Jóannes Patursson (1866–1946), Faroese politician, poet and farmer