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About the name Mykines
There are many explanations of the origin of the name and spelling of Mykines.
The name of Mykines can be spelled in many different ways: Mykines, Mykiness, Mikines, Mikjinees,Mikjunes, Mygenes, Mygen?s and Myggen?s.
The oldest known way of spelling is Mykiness and is from around 1400 and the name is said to origin from the celtic word Muc-innis, which should mean "the island of pigs".
The name Mykines has also been said to origin from "dung", the "dung foreland", as explained by the story about floating islands and the man from Vagoy, who threw dung from bulls on the floating island.
But the first part of the word, "Myki" has also been explained as many forelands, originating from the faroese word miki?, meaning many, a lot of, enough of.
Lucas Debes uses in his book: "F?roernes beskrivelse" (A Description of the Faroes), from 1673 the word Myggen?s, which remind much of the Danish "myg", mosquito. But that name has probably nothing to do with "normal" mosquitoes, as no such live on Mykines. But one can be stuck by "mitter", a very tiny, 1-2 mm long species of mosquitoes, which can be found on Mykines. So one can be stuck on Mykines and one can also be bitten by "puffin louse", which is no specie of louse, but a sort of tick.
J. Chr. Svabo uses in his: "Indberetninger fra en rejse i F?roe 1781 - 1782" (Report from a journey in the Faroes 1781 - 1782), the word Mygenes and also mention the following spellings: Mikjinees, Mykines and Myggen?s, but without trying to give any explanation of the origin of the words.
In beginning of the 19.th century, the word Mikines was often used and can still be seen on the nameplate of older boats as well on the paintings of Samuel Joensen, who added Mikines to his name as an artist.
Nowadays the word Mykines is the only one used.


Floating islands
The name Mykines is not to be found in "F?ringe Saga" but several stories or legends are known.
According to one, Mykines should have been a floating islands, an islands which restless were floating around on the open ocean, as other Faroese islands also should have been doing.
A legend explains both how Mykines stopped being floating around and also how it got its name.
The fear of the great whales have been widespread among faroese fishing men and the legend tells:
A man from Vagoy always carried bulls dung with him, when fishing, to throw it on the water to frighten the big whales, in case they came close to his boat. Once fishing west of Vagoy, a big island suddenly appeared in the mist. He saved his fishing gears and rowed to the island, but before he went on the land he threw some dung on the island and in the same moment, the island stopped being floating around and from there after have been called "dung ness", muc ness, later transformed to Mikjunes and Mykines.
That there have been legends of floating islands is easy to understand, if one ever has been standing at a Faroese coast and seen how the tidal currents are passing by with great speed. What is moving, the water or the land? On Mykines this is very easy seen from Mykines Holm's south western corner. Here the tidal current "Strongurin", can be seen reaching out south from the stacks and the Stone, when the water is moving westward. Especially at spring tide, it can be impressive, with the water passing by at a speed of about 9 Knots. One can really get the impression of being on board a fast moving vessel.
Another legend tells this way:
A giant would like to live on the Faroes and especially he liked some of the islands, but he thought that the ones he liked the most were too small and he therefore tried to assemble then to form one greater island. Koltur was the first he took possession of and he thought it had a fine position, so he let it be where is was. Then he moved to Skuoy and intended to pull it close to Koltur, but the people living there asked him if it really could be his intention to live on Skuoy, as it was known that the island was born by a little calf. When the giant heard this, he wasn't interested any more to possess that island and thanked the people living there so much for the information and even gave them great gifts. Then he carried on. North of the greater islands he then found another little island and the qualities of the island pleased him and he then began towing it south towards Koltur, but when he came north of Vagoy he was exhausted and even though he tried for one whole week, he didn't manage to move the island any further. Annoyed he said. As I have succeed to get the island above the sea it will also be possible for me to get it under water again. Because he didn't grudge any other that triumph. It is still being told, that sometimes an island can be seen north of Vagoy, with mountains, valleys and waterfalls. Most often it is men from Sorvagur, who have seen the island, when

On November 22, 1963, President John F Kennedy was riding in a Presidential Motorcade with the 1st Lady Jacqueline when a shot rang out while they were riding through Dealey Plaza. People say they heard 2 gunshots but they only could prove one shot from the 6th floor of the book depository. The shot hit President Kennedy in the head and killed him. A few hours later, a man was arrested at a local movie theater and charged with the assassination of the President. That alledged assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald. He was alledged because Oswald would never make it to court because he was shot and killed 2 days later leaving the police station by Jack Ruby. This would put Ruby in one of the biggest conspiracy ever, the JFK assassination.

These are the facts of Ruby. He was born in Chicago, Il in 1911 as Jack Rubenstein. After moving to Dallas for a better life, he would change his last name to Ruby in 1947. While in Dallas, Ruby opened up a nightclub. Ruby was seen as a scary man who always carried a handgun wherever he went. On Nov 24, 1963, Ruby was passing the Dallas Police Station when he parked his car and got out. He would later say it was unplanned and on a whim, but Ruby marched into the station posing as a news reporter. When Oswald came walking out of the police station in handcuffs, Ruby pulled out his Colt Cobra.38 handgun and shot Oswald in the stomach at 11:38 am. Oswald would die on the way to the hospital. Ruby would be tackled and arrested with the murder. He would be founded guilty and sentenced to life before he would appeal.

These are the theories of his inolvement in the assassination. Ruby was seen with the known associated of the Italian Mafia in Dallas. The mafia had ties with anit-Castro Cubans who had admitted to hating the President for not supporting them during the Bay of Pigs.

Oswald, who lived in Russia for 3 uears after going AWOL from the army, was hired bu Russian mob. They were mad at Kennedy for the Cuban Missile Crisis and hired Oswald to shoot Kennedy. Then, they hired Ruby to shoot Oswald to shut him up.

Some beleive Ruby worked with Oswald and might of been the second shooter that was never found. He then shot Oswald to shut him up so they would never found out his involvement.

He was also known to be an associate of Crime families in Chicago. This included Sam Giancana and Jimmy Hoffa. Giacncana was the crime boss of the Chicago Outfit which was once ran by Al Capone and Jimmy Hoffa was a teamster from Chicago. Hoffa supposidly wanted Ruby to hire police officers to kill Oswald, but after that failed, Hoffa ordered Ruby to finish off the job or Ruby would be killed.

None of these thories were ever proven and just speculated. Oswald never got his day in court and even though Ruby was convicted of killing Oswald, he always said that he did it on a whim and was never planned.

Ruby would be sentenced to life in prison after a 6 month trial. He would soon appeal the conviction, but it would never make it back to court. Ruby died of pulmonary embolism on Jan 3, 1967 at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. Parkland Hospital is the same hospital Oswald died at and Kennedy was pronounced dead. Ruby was taken back to Chicago where he would be buried next to his parents in Westlawn Cemetery in the subburb of Norridge.