Toftanes – a Viking-Age Farmstead in Leirvík


Steffen Stummann Hansen:
Toftanes – a Viking-Age Farmstead in Leirvík.
Bygdasavnið Gamli Skúli. Leirvík 2005.

• Format: 21.0 x 15.0 cm.
• 52 pages, 40 illustrations (colour).
• rice: DKK 90 (+ postage)

Order the book from local museum “Gamli Skúli”




During 1982-1987 large-scale investigations of a Faroese Viking-age farmstead were conducted at Toftanes in Leirvík. The excavations uncovered well-preserved house structures and a huge artefact assemblage which provided a very significant insight into the early history of the Faroe Islands. This semi-popular publication presents the results of the excavations and discusses the site in its wider North Atlantic context.

Review by Norbert B. Vogt:
“Steffen Stummann Hansen gelang mit seinem schmalen, aber gehaltvollen und im besten Sinne populärwissenschaftlichen Büchlein eine gut lesbare, spannende Einführung in die färöische Frühgeschichte, die neugierig macht auf weitere Erkenntnisses und Entdeckungen.” Read review here (in German)