Norðragøta on the cover of Parrot Time’s special Faroe Islands issue.
This month, my love for the Faroe Islands had an exciting new platform — a special issue of a magazine!
Parrot Time is a linguistic and cultural emagazine published bimonthly by the Parleremo language learning community. The magazine’s editor-in-chief, Erik Zidowecki, contacted me based on our conversations about the Faroe Islands to ask whether I would be interested in helping him put together a special issue focusing on Faroese topics. Naturally, I was very excited to work on the project. With the help of four Faroe Islanders, we published eleven articles on subjects ranging from summer festivals on the islands and the new feature film Ludo to the presence of Danish in Faroese life and the Faroese perspective on the whaling controversy. I’m very happy with the way the magazine came together with such a wide variety of pieces and beautiful photographs.
From my article “Coming Home to Faroese” in Parrot Time’s special Faroe Islands issue.
“Coming Home to Faroese” was my main feature story for the magazine. By exploring the richness that learning Faroese has brought to my life, I wrote about the challenges and rewards of learning a language with a small number of speakers. Here’s an excerpt:
“I remember how it felt to speak Faroese down in Copenhagen, to navigate through the crowded city and yet feel as if I had never left the islands when I heard the language I had learned to love so well. The Danes and other foreigners that passed were none the wiser that something didn’t add up, that I was an imposter, that I didn’t belong. In a way I did. In that moment, I felt I could just glimpse, just taste, that feeling of being a part of something… smaller. Something more intimate. Of what it meant to know just from a language that you were home.”
The readable PDF version of the magazine can be viewed for free at the following address: http://issuu.com/abavagada/docs/parrottime_issue_011/3?e=6771516/9612833
Adventures in the Land of Maybe 
As someone who always buys, free range, organic meat, I do not see the problem with the Grindadrap. I am acutely aware of where my meat was reared and slaughtered. I would happily eat, Grind, and would have no problem with watching the Slaughter and butchering, of the Whales. Why is nobody, protesting about the, sheep, that are also slaughtered? Well done on a balanced and well written post. You are everything a journalist, should be. I am bored of the lazy, sensationalist tripe, that the tabloids print about, Grindadrap. I am excited by the direct flight to Faroe Islands, from Gatwick, London, this summer. I think it will prove successful and that most people, do not care about, Grindadrap. Especially when given the facts. And when Brexit, kicks in, we will be trading directly with the Faroese. More trade, more tourism, the future is bright, for the Faroe Islands. I wish them all, the very best.
Thank you so much for your kind words! You wrote this comment years ago, actually on the night of my sister’s wedding, and the very eve of Covid-19 shutting everything down. Have you been able to visit the Faroes?