Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Kvæði (Kvaedi; at kvøða: to sing a tune or kvæði; kvæði also means verse in Icelandic also sometimes used to mean stanza) are the old ballads of the Faroe Islands accompanied by the Faroese dance. Kvæði can have hundreds of stanzas plus a chorus sung between every verse.It is generally thought that Faroese ballads as elsewhere in Europe began to be composed in the Middle Ages but we have very little medieval Faroese writing so the ballads’ medieval history is obscure.
