Sanna av Skarði (born Súsanna Kathrina Jacobsen,Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon: Sigrid av Skarði Joensen (1908–1975). April 19, 1876 – February 12, 1978)Den Store Danske: Simun av Skarði.Bundgaard, Torben: Susanna Kathrine Jacobsen. was a Faroese educator.
Early life Sanna av Skarði was born in Tórshavn, the daughter of Jacob Jacobsen and Elsebeth Jacobsen née Djonesen. In 1901 she married Símun av Skarði, who co-founded the Faroese Folk High School () together with Rasmus Rasmussen in Klaksvík in 1899.Pons, Christophe. 2011. "The Anthropology of Christianity in the Faroe Islands". In: Firouz Gaini (ed.), Among the Islanders of the North: An Anthropology of the Faroe Islands, pp. 80–131. Tórshavn: Fróðskapur / Faroe University Press, p. 91.
Career She taught alongside her husband at the school.
Personal life Sanna and Símun were the parents of the journalist Sigrið av Skarði Joensen (1908–1975) and the linguist (1911–1999). She died in Tórshavn at the age of 101.
Commemoration In 2000, she was featured on a Faroese stamp together with her sister-in-law Anna Suffía Rasmussen. Aside from Ruth Smith's self-portrait, this was the first Faroese postage stamp depicting prominent women.
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