The story centers on the easternmost village of Hattarvík on Fugloy during the Middle Ages.
The most notorious of the rebels, (as the Danish governmental and officials in Tórshavn referred to them) were Høgni Nev, Rógvi Skel, Hálvdan Úlvsson and Sjúrður við Kellingará from the village of Hattarvík.
These men controlled and savaged the northern parts of the Faroe Islands for a long time.
All four men were later caught and sentenced to death, but Sjúrður við kellingará was shown mercy and granted amnesty.
The story is that he could not live with the crimes that he and the others had committed under their "little" rebellion and asked to be executed with the other floksmenn.