Resolution
The meeting ended with the acceptance of a six point resolution:
- As soon as there were enough Faroese schoolbooks available, Faroese should be used as an educational language in schools.
- In history, the emphasis must be on Faroese national history.
- In religion, all Danish rote learning should be abolished and the subject matter rendered in Faroese.
- Priests must be free to use Faroese in and outside the Church.
- Faroese should be used for all official ends and purposes.
- Finally, the resolution stressed the necessity of establishing a Faroese Folk High School.
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