From Oral Poetry to Rap in the Faroes

The purpose of this draft is to show how Faroese verbal art has moved from oral poetry to written and back again to forms of poetry inseparable from oral perfromance. Not that written texts have not always existed in Faroese society or that singing has not always been performed as far as we know. What I will suggest is an idea of a helix movement from the medieval epic ballads which were inseperable from the singing and chain dance over written modern literature to newer forms of verbal art such as pop, rock and rap where the text also is inseperable from the performance.