With the death of Tróndur also ends the independence of the Faeroe Islands: in 1035, also the Løgting loses his authority, even if it kept on meeting, with limited jurisdiction, until 1380. In that year, the Union of Kalmar decreed the new alliance between Sweden, Norway and Denmark and the Faeroe Islands went under the control of the Danish authority and its system of laws. The powers of the Løgting stopped and a sort of court remained, depending from a royal officer.

There is one proof of the activities of the Løgting, the 1298 “letter of the sheep” (Seyðabrævið), which gives dispositions about pastures and which remained effective until 1866.

For what concerns the spreading of Christianity in the archipelagos there is no much information. We know that the ecumenical centre was in Kirkijubøur, south of Streymoy: from the year it was founded, in the 12th century, until 1535, the year of the Reformation, succeeded 33 bishops.

Among these bishops, one must remember Erlendur, of the 13th century, who started the buiding of the Kirkijubøur Cathedral. The building remained unfinished, probably due to the bishop’s policy, for he wanted to replenish the Church Fund at the expenses of the parish.

The enhancement of life conditions for the inhabitants of the Islands increased also because of the development of fishing, more and more profitable after the replacement, from 1872, of the old ships with modern ones, fabricated in Britain.

During the World War II, consequently to the German occupation in Denmark, the Faeroe Islands were occupied by the British as a strategic control site over the North Atlantic.

During that period of separation from Demark, the Løgting increased its autonomy, so that many started considering the possibility of a complete independence.

On March 23, 1948, the Faeroes turned officially from a “Danish state” to a “self-rule community under the Reign of Denmark”.

This difference became evident when Faeroes did not follow Denmark into the European Community, and the resolution of keeping the 200m/h limit for the territorial waters.

Faeroes choose their own flag and the Faeroese became the official language for the local legislation (Landssstýri), although Danish remained the language taught at school.

Denmark was nonetheless always present with an annual financial contribution.

This autonomy seemed to prelude to a complete independence, also thanks to the improvement of life’s tenor in the Islands, especially in the 80s. However, the abrupt decrease of fishing activities in the North Atlantic (from 1990 to 1994, fish products went from 150m tons to 110m, notwithstanding the high technologies employed by the fleets of fishing boats), lead the Faeroes to an unexpected crises, with a consequent worsening of life’s tenor and an intensification of unemployment, reaching 20% in Torshavn and even more on other Islands.

The Faeroese Bank had then to rely increasingly to the Danish financial help, so that the Islands went back, actually, to a state of colony, although with an austere autonomous program of control over the economy.

After 1995, the situation seemed to improve, but, at this point, we are arrived to modern days.

At this point, the history of the Faeroes becomes marginal and develops according to the evolutions and involutions of the relationships between the Scandinavian reigns.

After the Union of Kalmar followed a period of virtual wealth, with almost 200 years of trading when the Faeroes gained a certain degree of independence, also thanks to the fact that Norway was weakened by the result of the “Black Plague”.

This period of affluence lasted until 1535, when Christian II of Denmark entrusted Thomas Kopper of Hamburg with the management of the monopoly of trade for the Faeroes. The Monopoly would have remained effectual, with disastrous effects on the Islands’ economy, for the following 300 years.

Together with the Monopoly, the Faeroes also saw the introduction of the Lutheran Church that, in five years, replaced the Catholic Church as the official religion of the Islands, reassigning the ecclesiastic possessions to the State and substituting Latin with Danish in the religious ceremonies.

The selling of products such as wool, meat, sheep skins, fish was determined my monopolists, and had devastating effects on the local economy, then bound to sell at the lowest prices.

The peak of this exploitation was reached in the second half of the 17th century, with Christoffer von Gabel, and later with his son Frederick. Their oppressive management was suspended from Danish government in 1709, until the Monopoly was abolished in 1956.

During the years of the Monopoly, Faeroes not only lost their independence, but their Parliament, the Løgting, had become less and less influential, until it remained with a purely representative role. In 1816, the Løgting was finally abolished and completely replaced with Danish Court. In 1849, the Faeroe Islands were definitively incorporated to the Danish Reign and had only two representative seats, in analogy with other districts of the Reign.

Even so, the perseverance of the Faeroese people eventually succeeded in restoring the Løgting in 1852 and, at the turn of the century, the idea of autonomy started to spread again. In opposition to the Union Party, the Home Rule Party advocated the autonomy of the Faeroes Islands from the  Reign of Denmark, and then the personality of Jóannes Patursson gained certain relevance.