Thorshavn

The Pastor, a dignified priestly figure in his long black robes and Elizabethan ruff, left the Thorshavn parsonage, passed through the side gate to the church-portal, and the bell-ringing died away.

A traveller in the Faroe Islands not long ago, asking in the bookshop at Thorshavn for some things in the Faroese language, was offered a ballad of Roncesvalles.

Thorshavn is situated on the S.E. side of Str�m�, upon a narrow tongue of land, having creeks on each side, where ships may be safely moored.

Thorshavn, in Str�m�, the largest island, is the seat of government.

By the time we reached the anchorage our voyage from Thorshavn had occupied exactly three days and six hours.