Fossá, Faroe Islands
Fossá is an abandoned village in the Faroe Islands. It lies on the island of Borðoy, slightly north of Norðdepil. It is at a place where several waterfalls join the sea, hence its name (cf. Faroese fossur 'waterfall' + á 'river'). Fossá was established in the 1860s as a settlement village, but nobody has lived there in recent years.
References
- ^ Swaney, Deanna. 1994. Iceland, Greenland & the Faroe Islands: A Travel Survival Kit. Hawthorn, Australia: Lonely Planet Publications, p. 586.
- ^ Krenn, Ernst. 1936. Die Namenwelt im Gebiete des kleinsten germanischen Volkes, der Föroyinger. Zeitschrift für Namenforschung 12: 34–49, 107–27, 229–47, p. 232.
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