Trøllkonufingur, which means the witch’s finger or troll woman’s finger, is a 313-meter-high rock — a distinctive, straight-standing finger — that stands on the south- and east-side of Sandavágur. Everyone who has lived here or walked down to the landing knows the view: the Finger that rises straight up from the mountain edge by the sea.

The legend says it was a troll-woman who intended to throw the Faroe Islands to Iceland. She had come all the way to the southern side of Vágar when the sun rose. As is well known, trolls cannot tolerate sunlight — and when she was exposed to it, she was turned into stone. She fell into the sea — but she was so large that her neck and one finger were still visible above the water. The neck is Koltur. The Finger is Trøllkonufingur.

Another story says that in 1844 a man from the Danish royal household came with an entourage to the Faroes. He managed to climb Trøllkonufingur and waved from the top to Crown Prince Frederik, who was sailing by. But when he had come down again, he remembered that he had forgotten his other glove on the summit. He was fatigued, but tried to climb up again. He lost his footing — and died. 

Only 11 people are known to have stood on the summit of Trøllkonufingur. The last person to reach the top did so in 2016.