Briefly about the Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands are a group of 18 Islands about halfway between Iceland and Scotland. Inhabited by just less than 50000 people these islands have had a strong identity of their own since they were originally populated by vikings more than 1000 years ago. While they are a Danish principality like Greenland, they have their own language, flag, parlaiment and priminister. Their Christian heritage goes back to Irish monks who lived as hermits in the solitude these islands in the later half of the 1st millenium AD.