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Investigations into the graffiti reveal:

 

It actually means Goal. (Mål). Like in Danish.

Then they put an ð in the end. Just for fun probably. There's a goal drawn on the wall behind. Just beside the clubhouse for the rowing club. Róðrarfelagið Knørrur.

Mál also means language. And with the ð at the end of the word (mål) it brings one to think of this: In rowing there's something call to "row målet". It's the ultimate physical effort where you give everything you have. Målet is the distance you row In competitions up there. Thats is why there's a picture of a boat. So actually there's a triple meaning.

 

Carsten (but mostly Niels, Thorshavn)

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Uploaded on October 11, 2014
Taken on October 10, 2014