2004-Mar-26
When our first ancestors established on the Faroe Islands, they choose to place their common parliament at a small, bipartite bay, at the centre of the islands. And to emphasize the conditions of life here in the North Atlantic Ocean, they called the bay Tórshavn, after Thor, one of the most powerful deities of the Viking Age.
Ran was the wife of the sea-deity Aegir, whose name is still used as a poetical paraphrase for the sea. Together they had nine daughters, wild and intractable like their mother, and each one of them symbolized different aspects of the waves. They were called: Himinglæva (wave that reflects the light of the sky), Dúfa (the pitching one), Blóðughædda (bloddy hair – the sea after a naval battle), Hefring (the raising one), Uðr (wave), Hrönn (sinking wave), Bylgja (big wave), Drøfn (wave) and Kolga (the cool one).
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