2025Oyggjarnar 120 Years - First Day Cover

The first women's magazine in Faroese was called Oyggjarnar (The Islands) and was published from 1905 to 1908. The editor was Súsanna Helena Patursson (1864–1916), daughter of Elin and Páll in Kirkjubøur and sister to notable national figures Sverre, Gazet, Siggert, and especially Jóannes Patursson. As a young woman, Súsanna Helena moved to Copenhagen, where she learned needlework and piano and later became a legal secretary. In 1896, she co-founded a Faroese Women's Progress Association as a protest against the exclusion of women from the Faroese Association. The following year, the association amended its statutes, leading to 24 women joining, which resulted in the women's association disbanding.