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Eigil continued to the grave of former country surgeon
Napoleon Nolsøe. At one time, his dislike of the man had
been so great that on New Year’s Eve, 1980 he had
dishonored Nolsøe’s grave. He had been convinced that
Napoleon Nolsøe was the prototypically devious Faroese
nationalist; and that, because of him, nationalism’s cultural
aspect in particular had become an epidemic.
If only he had kept his mouth shut about his grave defiling,
nothing more would have happened!
However, in December, 1992, when Eigil was up for re-
election on Tórshavn’s city council, his misdeed was aired
by the newspaper
Sosialurin.
The man who had represented
the Independence Party on the city council for four years
was hung out as a gravepisser! The newspaper wrote that he
had disgraced an honorable man’s grave in the same way as
had the Nazis and anti-Semites when they painted or
sprayed their slogans across Jewish graves. Or worse even:
Whereas the anti-Semites’ paint came from cans and so
could be considered impersonal, urine originated in a
warm, autonomous body.
With only the light from the bracket lamp in the hallway,
when he stood and spoke into the floor length mirror, he
had defended himself by saying that the action was inspired
by the man of letters, Ole Jacobsen. In volume six of
Fra
Færørerne – Úr Føroyum
, which the Danish- Faroese Society
published in 1971, and which Ole Jacobsen edited, the