The festival program reflects how the Faroese people have a shared wish to rejoice, celebrate diversity and bury the hatchet. Take, for example, the traditional annual football match between ...

The three-day trip wraps up on Friday, June 13, and has left a meaningful mark on the relationship between the Danish monarchy and the Faroese people. The royals were joined by their youngest ...

Economic prospects for Faroese women now look rosier than in the 1990s, when thousands of people left the amid an economic collapse caused, in part, by shrinking fish stocks.

Economic prospects for Faroese women now look rosier than in the 1990s, when thousands of people left the amid an economic collapse caused, in part, by shrinking fish stocks.

According to Norse sagas, the Faroese people are descended from Viking settlers who first reached the Faroes in the mid-ninth century A.D. during the landnám—Old Norse for “land-take”—a ...

Hundreds of dolphins will be killed during an annual hunt off the Faroe Islands, a self-governing archipelago that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. The yearly cull, or grindadráp in Faroese, is ...

‘Trom' Faroese creator Torfinnur Jákupsson and producer Jón Hammer launch GRÓ Studios with the political thriller series ‘Tinganes.’ Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

Only recently did Faroese politicians get back the responsibility for legislation in the territory. That is the main argument for why the local government should change abortion rules soon, according ...

Faroe Islands will limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals after last year's cull received widespread criticism for killing more than 1,400 dolphins. Almost 1.3 million people signed a ...

Photographer Andrea Gjestvang spent six years documenting the lives of bachelors in the Faroe Islands, a remote archipelago with over 107 men for every 100 women.