Ormurin Langi is a Faroese folk ballad. It was written in ca. 1830 by Jens Christian Djurhuus.
The launching of the ship, from a Faroese stamp commemorating the ballad
The battle, as depicted in a Faroese stamp commemorating the ballad
Kvæði are the old ballads of the Faroe Islands, accompanied by the Faroese chain dance.
They typically recite stories and can have hundreds of stanzas plus a chorus sung between every verse.
Faroese stamp depicting the Faroese ballad Harra Pætur & Elinborg