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Ólavsøka

Ólavsøka proper noun: a festival taking place annually on the 28th and 29th of July in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.

Proper noun

Ólavsøka

  1. a festival taking place annually on the 28th and 29th of July in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
    • ... as when the Løgting's sitting at Ólavsøka is paired with inchoate revelry and promenading up and down the streets of Tórshavn.2011, Firouz Gaini, Among the Islanders of the North: An Anthropology of the Faroe Islands, Faroe University Press, →ISBN, page 77
    • In addition to the final hours of Ólavsøka, ...2016, Kristín Loftsdóttir, Lars Jensen, Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism, Routledge, →ISBN

Questions about Ólavsøka

What does Ólavsøka mean?
Ólavsøka means a festival taking place annually on the 28th and 29th of July in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.
What part of speech is Ólavsøka?
Ólavsøka is a proper noun.

Words near Ólavsøka in the dictionary

  1. Ñemby
  2. Ñuble
  3. Ñudzahui
  4. Ñuñoa
  5. ñáñiguismo
  6. Ólavsøka
  7. Óðinn
  8. Óðr
  9. ô
  10. õ
  11. ö

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