page_title: Norðragøta
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: Norðragøta / Overview
context_page_description: Norðragøta, also just referred to as Gøta, is a village on Eysturoy, Faroe Islands.
context_section_description: The municipality of Gøta (Gøtu kommuna) was a municipality until 1 January 2009 when it merged with Leirvík into Eysturkommuna. Gøta consists also of the villages Gøtueiði, Gøtugjógv and Syðrugøta. The village lies on Eysturoy's east coast at the bottom of the inlet Gøtuvík. There is a museum called Gøtu Fornminnisavn with the famous house Blásastova. The wooden church in the centre of the village is from 1833.
  Gøta is a place of great importance in the history of the Faroe Islands. One of the key figures  in the Icelandic saga, Færeyinga saga, called Tróndur Gøtuskegg (Old Norse: Þrǫ́ndr í Gǫtu) lived here. Trondur (also called Tróndur í Gøtu) was a heathen Viking-chief who ruled all of the islands for a period of time. In the saga Tróndur is represented as the "bad guy" while the "good guy" is Sigmundur Brestisson. Sigmundur Christianised the Faroe Islands for the King of Norway.
caption: The famous Faroese singer Eivør Pálsdóttir posing in national costume in front of the museum Blásastova in Gøta.
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