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Frammi við Gjónna

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State
  
Kingdom of Denmark

Island
  
Streymoy

Time zone
  
GMT

Country
  
Faroe Islands

Municipality
  
Kvívík

Population
  
0 (1 Jan 2016)

Frammi við Gjónna

Frammi vi gj nna


Frammi við Gjónna is an abandoned village in the Faroe Islands.

A farm was established in the village as a settlement village in 1815, but there was probably already settlement at the site even earlier. The farm is located next to some streams near Lake Leynar in the Municipality of Kvívík on Streymoy. Frammi við Gjónna is a typical example of a Faroese farm, where the residents lived in a long stone house with a grass roof and subsisted by raising sheep. Today the farm is abandoned, but the flat fields below the farm, near Lake Leynar, are cultivated. Frammi við Gjónna was used as the motif for a postage stamp engraved by Czesław Słania and issued by the Faroese postal service in 1987.

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Frammi við Gjónna Wikipedia