ABSTRACT
The Faroe Islands constitute a small archipelago in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, situated between Iceland, Norway and Scotland. The land width is only 1,399 square kilometres, spread out across 17 inhabited islands and several islets. The archipelago, which has home rule within the Kingdom of Denmark, stretches 120 kilometres from north to south and 75 kilometres from east to west. With modernization, the close ties within the village communities have loosened on a continuous basis and they have opened up towards each other and outside world. Over the past few decades, more and more villages and even islands have been connected by tunnel, bridge and road. This chapter provides an analytical discussion of this difficult issue. Our point of departure is that villagers today increasingly commute between their everyday functionalities of home, work, leisure and shopping. In other words, village life is constituted by fact that they are connected in what may be termed a village network.
