Poet to be honoured with stamp:
"Grovelling is the fate of man,
the speech of worms from mire and capes,
Ugly dwarfs do tread their dance,
bent in servile shapes."
‘To The Faroes III’ - Janus Djurhuus
The most celebrated poet to emerge from the Faroe Islands is to be commemorated with a set of new stamps on 20th September. [...]
Ten stamps make up the release, each one based upon one of Djurhuus more nationalistic poems and selected by designer Anker Eli Petersen. These are listed below:
Atlantis
Grimur Kamban
Gandkvaedi Trondar
Til Foroya I – III
Min Sorg
Loki
Í Buri & Slatur
Heimfred Nolsoyar Pals
Moses a Sinai fjalli
Cello
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