We decided to give Nolsoy a try. It is right across the way from Torshavn. But the boat doesn't leave until 1230, so we went to the outdoor museum first. There we saw how they lived a few hundred years ago. we stepped through time, into an old farmstead, complete with 6 barns (cows, steers, potatoes, milk, grain, and hay.) It was quite interesting and eye opening.
Then we headed for the harbor, and no parking for any more than 2 hours. So we parked by Hanna's apartment. The ferry to Nolsoy took less than 30 minutes. We walked around for quite some time, just enjoying nature. The kids spent hours playing on the rocky shore, looking for crabs, jelly fish, and other sea life. They found a live hermit crab, a dead regular crab, and zillions of jelly fish of various kinds. It would seem that the krill were in heavy supply.
Then we visited the grave of Ove Joensen, who rowed a small boat from the Faroes to Denmark in the mid 80's. He later drowned while swimming from Torshavn to Nolsoy. He is something of a town favorite there.
We also visited the ruins of grain storage from viking times, where it is said that a young woman hid from pirates. She was eventually found. The pirate that found her, cut off her right breast and raped her. The rest of the pirates felt so bad about their fellow sailor treating her so badly, that the hung him and applied a healing salve to the wound. The jar that held the salve is still at the museum in Torshavn. The story of the young woman was included in the wax museum tour in Vestmanna (remember, we were there early in our trip.)
At 1650, the ferry returned to Torshavn. Elsa had to stop at a cousin's house before heading home, because he was leaving for Denmark. They gave us a HUGE chunk of spik (whale blubber)! So we ended up having turran fisk, spin, go eplir for dinner.
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| Turran fisk, spik, og eplir. |
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