"Grovelling is the fate of man, the speech of worms from mire and capes, Ugly dwarfs do tread their dance, bent in servile shapes. "
			‘To The Faroes III’ - Janus Djurhuus

The most celebrated poet to emerge from the Faroe Islands is to be commemorated with a set of new stamps on 20th September.

Born in Tórshavn in 1881, Janus Djurhuus was a gifted child with a flare for languages. His literary awakening took place when he heard a classmate recite Nú er tann stundin...” (Now the time has come...), a poem by Johannes Patursson.

Having graduated from preliminary-school in 1897, Djurhuus continued his education in Denmark and went on to publish his first poem, “Blíð er summarnátt á Føroyalandi” (The Faroese summer-night is tender) after graduation in 1900.

By 1911, the poet had become a lawyer, working in Denmark before retuning to the Faroe Islands. He published his first collection of poems in 1914, one of five collections consisting of over 200 poems in total before he died in 1948.

Ten stamps make up the release, each one based upon one of Djurhuus more nationalistic poems and selected by designer Anker Eli Petersen. These are listed below:

Atlantis
Grimur Kamban
Gandkvaedi Trondar
Til Foroya I – III
Min Sorg
Loki
Í Buri & Slatur
Heimfred Nolsoyar Pals
Moses a Sinai fjalli
Cello