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Sepac 2019: Old Residential Houses The Farmhouse in Kirkjubøur
served as a church for a while, but was later
It's a strange feeling. Almost like an echo
abandoned for reasons historical sources
from the multifarious passage of time -
decline to reveal. Well, it's not the Cathedral
myriad voices from times gone by and shad-
ruins we have come to see. Right next to the
ows in the outermost corners of the eyes
ruins we find an iconic building, black with
hurrying by on assignments accomplished
red windows and the characteristic Faroese
ages ago. Here in the courtyard of history
turf roof. The beautiful farmhouse in Kirk-
you cannot help but thinking about those
jubøur is the Faroe Islands' oldest inhabited
people who once attended to their daily
log house - so old that its origins disappear
routines in between the houses - events in
in the fog of medieval history.
which real persons took part and of which only fragmentary knowledge remains today,
The Old Episcopal Residence
passed down in legends and scattered writ-
You can quickly confirm that the present
ten sources. You automatically glance at the
house was not the first building erected on
iconic Cathedral ruins, MĂşrurin (the Wall)
this spot. The house does not entirely fit the
as it is commonly called. It is a monument
basement foundation, which originally sup-
to spiritual aspirations and power. In school
ported a larger building. This was the medi-
we learned that the Cathedral was never
eval seat of the Episcopal residence - and
completed, well-nigh causing a civil war in
archaeological studies have concluded that
the Faroe Islands because the inhabitants,
the original facilities consisted of two paral-
especially in the southern part of the coun-
lel stone houses. The larger of these houses
try, did not want contribute to the pomp-
may have been two storeys high - and it is
ous construction. It is now believed that
on the foundation of this building that the
the Cathedral was actually completed and
current farmhouse rests.
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