Ólavsøka

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See also: ólavsøka

English

Proper noun

Ólavsøka

  1. a festival taking place annually on the 28th and 29th of July in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
    • 2011, Firouz Gaini, Among the Islanders of the North: An Anthropology of the Faroe Islands, Faroe University Press, →ISBN, page 77:
      ... as when the Løgting's sitting at Ólavsøka is paired with inchoate revelry and promenading up and down the streets of Tórshavn.
    • 2016, Kristín Loftsdóttir, Lars Jensen, Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism, Routledge, →ISBN:
      In addition to the final hours of Ólavsøka, ...
    • 2010, S. A. Bengtson, Dorete--her Book: Being a Tribute to Dorete Bloch and to Faroese Nature, Faroe University Press, →ISBN, page 127:
      He also had a good voice and sang ballads, so strongly that the milkmaids one morning at Ólavsøka heard him all over the fiord from Havn.

Translations

Faroese

Proper noun

Ólavsøka f

  1. Misspelling of ólavsøka.
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