When your language is too small for Google Translate, you've got to take things into your own hands .>Throughout these centuries, when the Faroese talked to God and priest and bailiff and teacher and any other authority in Danish, their own language was alive and well in ordinary life as they toiled in boats, farms and fields – and especially in the villages, where life had hardly changed for centuries. Among ordinary people, the heart of Faroese culture beat strongly.The language was never quelled. It was just biding its time, waiting to be released again, which is exactly what happened in the latter half of the 19th century. The Faroese language blossomed.The Faroe Islands is an archipelago of 18 mountainous islands located halfway between Iceland and Scotland in the North Atlantic Ocean.The islands’ population of nearly 50,000 is spread out across the 17 inhabited islands.