- Turið Sigurðardóttir

One area of research is the work of Símun av Skarði (1870-1942), director of the Faroese Folk High School. His songs and hymns, originals and translations, have been national treasures ever since they were published and have been accessible in song and hymnbooks. His writings, or parts of them, were, however, never published. Turið Sigurðardóttir began compiling Símun av Skarði’s poetry, prose and translations. Registers drawn up by Jóhannes av Skarði (1911-1999) and interviews with him were of great help in this work and happily the first volume was published before Jóhannes passed away.

Between 1998 and 2004 the compilation was published in 7 volumes – a book a year - by publishing house Fannir:

Volume 1: Poetry
Volumes 2 and 3: Articles, sermons, homages and reviews
Volume 4: Stories and folktales
Volume 5: Translations of the Icelandic sagas
Volume 6: One original and one translated play
Volume 7: Translated contemporary novel

A supplement to the seven volumes is also in the pipeline. It will constitute an overview and its contents will include: texts undiscovered when the volume in which they should have been included was printed; overviews of where the individual texts were previously printed and where they are located in the compilation; comments, explanations and discussions of individual texts; an index of literature about Símun av Skarði.