I am a poet and translator interested in Faroese. Thanks for posting the Mark Wunderlich link. I was in workshops with him at Bennington.

I’m attending the summer institute at UFI in Torshavn this summer. Wondered if you were too.

Best,

Matthew

I’m a retired academic dictionary editor and occasional translator from the Scandinavian languages (mainly Swedish), living in Edinburgh, Scotland. I spent most of my working life at my alma mater, Edinburgh University, but in a previous incarnation I also taught English and English as a Foreign Language (EFL), including two years in Sweden.
That stimulated my interest in modern Scandinavian languages and literatures, but during my undergraduate years as a student of English Language and Literature I studied Old Norse with the scholar and translator Herman Pálsson, and the sagas and eddic poetry have stayed with me.

Last September I realised a long-standing ambition to visit Iceland and the Faroes, bringing back as souvenirs a good Icelandic-English dictionary from Edmundsson’s bookshop in Reykjavík, and a copy of the Adams and Petersen Faroese language course you mention from the main bookshop in Tórshavn. I’m keen to extend my translation activities – if only in private! – to Icelandic and Faroese.

I was brought up in a fishing-village on the east coast of Scotland where many of our local fishermen were familiar with the Faroes, and in fact our little public library had a shelf of Faroese books for the Faroese wives of some local men who had brought back more than a catch of cod from their trips to northern waters.

Keep up the good work. I look forward to reading more of your blogs in future!

Harry