Family of Heine JOENSEN and Herborg ARNBJØRNSDATTER

Havreki: A. Weihe wrote the story in 1933 about Heine "Havreka" (sea drifter) Woodworker Jacob Hansen and Goroum in Solmunde presented a book and a cupboard (or money safe) to Faeroy Museum. It was an unusual gift from times past - of interest is the wood-carvings done in the wood. Nice work. Heine Havreki became a minister in Ostero. He went to visit Norway and while there he got married in 1538. He received the furniture from his relatives as a wedding gift. It is at least 400 years old and not in very good shape, but as an antique it has high value. Here is a story of how Heine came drifting to Husavig - written by Pastor C.F. Nielsen..Several people say he did not come to Husavig but to Hvannasund, otherwise their story was the same as Nielson's. In the same book: In Ostero and especially in Kvalvig and in Nes Sogn, there is a different story of how Heine and his 5 dead student friends landed in Ostnes in a little place named Skarohamar in Neslid. The story is that Heine Havreki and five student friends wet out from Bergen to get to another place in Norway. They were overtaken by storm and fog and got lost. The wind and sea brought them to Faeroan. One by one they died from hunger and cold until only Heine was left. After the last of his friends died he promised that if he could get to land alive then he would build a church on the place and dedicate his life to God and serve Him to the vest of his ability. A short time later he could see land, but he had no strength to bring the boat ashore. The wind and currents brought him ashore. When he got to Skarohamar he tied the boat and went on foot in from shore. He was in bad shape and had to sit down. He did not think he could ever get up again. In the meantime a boat came out from Skalefjord on their way out to fish and they noticed Heine and his boat. Heine asked them to bury his friends where they found him. He named the place Fridaflota - the place has the same name today. It is supposed to be greener on that place than on the places around. Heine Johansen (Havreki - seadrifter) got a job as accountant to the last Catholic Bishop Aamund Olafsen in Kirkebo. Herborg, the daughter of Arnbjorn Guttormsen from Husavig went to visit in Kirkebo. She and Heine went together to Torshavn. They got engaged and a short time later got married. They had several children, of them the renowned Magnus Heinason. When the Reformed Church was established in Faeroene, Heine applied for the position of Pastor in Ostero to open the way to build a church there as he had vowed to do. He got the position as priest and was priest for 30 years, and Provst for 12 years.He started the work to build the church right away, but he could not build it in Friuflotu where he had landed because the ground was not ideal. The church was built at the nearest place, and Naes Kirke is still standing. It would have been more practical to build the church in Tofte but because of the promise to build the church where he got to shore it was built in Nes. It was the first wooden church in Ostero. The timber was given free from his relatives in Norway and brought right to the place. A written document was found with Heine's seal stating that he was priest in Stromo in 1533 and was, therefore, a priest before he came to Ostero. The story of Heine's landing in Nes can be proven in many places by landowners in Lamhauge, Clement and Hans Peter, in Kvalvig Mrs. Armingard, born Hansen, Glibre as told by their grandparents. I have often been thinking of writing more about the story, but have for many reason not done so. However, after I was able to obtain the historic furniture that tied it all together I have decided to tell what I know of Heine Havreki and his story from the past.