Skarvanes

Skarvanes [ skaɹvane ː s] ( Danish name: Skarvenæs ) is a place of the Faroe Islands on the west coast of the island Sandoy opposite the island Skúvoy.

• Population: 5 (1 January 2007 )
• Postal Code: FO -236
• Municipality: Húsavíkar municipal

Skarvanes, together with the towns of Húsavík and Dalur the east by the above local authority and at the same time the southern part of the island.

The settlement dates back to the time back around the year 1500. It faces the south-west, which is why the local cornfields were very productive. The large commons is pretty good, which is why the living conditions of the fact despite that the conditions for the operation of boat fishing were unfavorable due to frequent surf, were not bad. Nevertheless, it came to migration and the last person in the village died in 2000. The village was already depopulated, in a valley 2 km north of the village but still lives a family. The village houses are now used as summer homes and the like.

Here is a resulting small wooden watermill with the typical grass roof, it is one type of that which can be seen in the open -air museum of the Danish National Museum and it also came from Sandoy.

An old shrine in Skarvanes is the stone Kyriusteinur. From the stone had the last view of the old house of worship, which was used until the Reformation in 1538. The old Faroese applied to the stone, murmured a godly Kyrie eleison and threw a small stone over his shoulder.

A popular hiking trail leads from Skarvanes after Dalur. Another trail runs parallel to the coast road 37

Skarvanes one of the few Faroese villages who did not follow the conversion to street names and house numbers (from 2005) and today still use the old name for each individual house.