Tingakrossur

Tingakrossur
Launched	1901
Political alignment	Home Rule Party
Language	Faroese
Ceased publication	1990
City	Tórshavn

Tingakrossur was a Faroese newspaper. The first copy of the paper was published on January 1, 1901^[1]^[2] and it ceased publication in 1990. It was not published between 1955 and 1959.

Although the newspaper was initially written mainly in Danish, it was autonomy oriented, and later it became the organ and party newspaper of the Home Rule Party (Faroese: Sjálvstýrisflokkurin) in 1906.^[1] The avowed purpose of the paper was to promote education and fight against oppression. Poetry and prose held a central place in the newspaper, and the first Faroese novel, Rasmus Rasmussen's Babelstornið (The Tower of Babel, 1909), was published serially in it.

The newspaper's name comes from the Faroese common noun tingakrossur 'bidding stick'. A cross-shaped bidding stick was carried to summon people to the Løgting at Tinganes.^[3]

Many of the newspaper's editors were leading politicians in the Home Rule Party.

Editors

Kristin í Geil (a.k.a. Christen Holm-Isaksen), 1901–1911
Sverri Patursson, 1911–1912
Petur Alberg, 1912–1914
Kristin í Geil, 1914–1935
Eivind Isholm, 1935–1939
S.E. Matras, 1940–1943
Louis Zachariasen, 1943–1954
Hans David Matras, 1960–1963
Tummas Lenvig, 1963–1966
Marius Johannesen, 1967–1978
Hanna Absalonsen, 1979–1985
Johan Petur Petersen, 1985–1987
Petur Martin Rasmussen, 1988–1989
Bergur Jacobsen, 1990

References

^ ^a ^b Wylie, Jonathan. 1987. The Faroe Islands: Interpretations of History. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, p. 157.
^ Hermansson, Nanna Stefania. 2010. A Bookcase in Kongsstiva in Nólsoy. In: Dorete—Her Book (= Annales Societatis Scientiarum Færoensis Supplementum 52), pp. 117–138. Tórshavn: Faroe University Press, p. 123.
^ West, John Frederick. 1972. Faroe: The Emergence of a Nation. London: C. Hurst, p. 24.

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