, which is the southernmost village in the Faroe Islands. The neighbourhood of Hørg is up on the hillside. The mountain in the background is
Beinisvørð, 470 metres high, often mentioned in Poul F. Joensen's poems. Beinisvørð has a green slope up to the top on this side and goes vertically down to the sea on the other side. . Poul (Pól) F. Joensen was the son of Daniel Jacob Joensen from Hørg, Sumba and Anna Sofia, born Langaard, both came from the village of
Sumba. Later he married Julia Mortensen from
Froðba. When Poul F. was 14 years old he tried to become a seaman as did many of his friends. He was a fisherman for one year. He wished to continue with life at sea and had plans to go fishing aboard the fishing vessel
Robert Miller, but his parents wouldn't permit him to do so. Instead they sent him to
Tórshavn, to study to become a teacher in public schools. Later it turned out that if he had gone fishing on
Robert Miller on that trip, it would have been the last thing that he did, and no one would have known about his poetry ever.
Robert Miller never returned from that trip in March 1914, and all the men onboard lost their lives. Poul F. Joensen graduated as a school teacher in 1917. He was teaching from 1919–27 in Froðba and again 1947–49 in
Lopra; both villages are on
Suðuroy. After teaching for eight years he decided to give up teaching and live as a writer and a sheep farmer and by working various jobs. == Bibliography ==