Meanings
proper noun
- a festival taking place annually on the 28th and 29th of July in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
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, →ISBN2 more examples
... 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 77He also had a good voice and sang ballads, so strongly that the milkmaids one morning at Ólavsøka heard him all over the fiord from Havn.
2010, S. A. Bengtson, Dorete--her Book: Being a Tribute to Dorete Bloch and to Faroese Nature, Faroe University Press, →ISBN, page 127
Translations
Danish Olaj
- OlajÓlavsøka
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APA
Ólavsøka. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%C3%93lavs%C3%B8ka
MLA
“Ólavsøka.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%C3%93lavs%C3%B8ka. Accessed November 5, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Ólavsøka,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%C3%93lavs%C3%B8ka.
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