Because I’m curious, I wanted to know what Stora Dimun meant. Stora was clear, almost the same as in Norwegian meaning the bigger or the larger. I searched the web for Faeroese dictionaries to reveal the Dimun name. No luck.
Then I found amazing pictures of the real Stora Dimun. Go have a look.
I want to sit on the edge of that cliff and spindle a thread until the spindle reaches the sea. Just ignore the fact that I’d need really long arms to do that.
Certainly very few hands around to help!
Hi,
by chance I came to your page – seeing you wondering about the name “Stora Dimun” … and you have found it in Farao Islands. We have one also in Iceland, a low mountain near a glacial river, named Stóri Dímon in our language … sorry I cant give you a picture – but in this url you can see a nice picture: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3056/2902410939_197181b3be.jpg
And reading about your sheep – well they look pretty much like our sheep in Iceland – must be the real Wiking sheep!
A nice find – your page,
kind regards
Gudrun Halfdnardottir