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The earliest text which is believed to include a description of the Faroe Islands, was written by an Irish monk in the Frankish Kingdom named Dicuil, who wrote about the countries in the north.

Dicuil had met a " man worthy of trust " who related to his master, the abbot Sweeney ( Suibhne ), how he had landed on the Faroe Islands after having navigated " two days and a summer night in a little vessel of two banks of oars.

" Around A. D. 825, Dicuil wrote a book, Liber de Mensura Orbis Terrae, ( Measure / description of the sphere of the earth ) in which he states: