Medievalists.net » Shetland Islands http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Picts and the Martyrs or Did Vikings Kill the Native Population of Orkney and Shetland? http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/09/the-picts-and-the-martyrs-or-did-vikings-kill-the-native-population-of-orkney-and-shetland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/09/the-picts-and-the-martyrs-or-did-vikings-kill-the-native-population-of-orkney-and-shetland/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2015 13:41:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=58807 I suspect that the Norse invaders of Orkney and Shetland didn't just overwhelm', or 'submerge' the native population: I think they killed them.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/06/09/the-picts-and-the-martyrs-or-did-vikings-kill-the-native-population-of-orkney-and-shetland/feed/ 0 The Viking Language of the Highlands and Islands: Reconstructing the Norn Language from Old Norse http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/18/viking-language-highlands-islands-reconstructing-norn-language-old-norse/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/18/viking-language-highlands-islands-reconstructing-norn-language-old-norse/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2014 22:57:32 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54214 The Orkney and Shetland islands of Scotland were at one time colonized by Vikings and belonged firmly within the field of Scandinavian cultural influence. During this time the people of these archipelagos spoke a unique language known as Norn which evolved from the Old Norse language.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/18/viking-language-highlands-islands-reconstructing-norn-language-old-norse/feed/ 0 The Stewart Earls of Orkney and the History of Orkney and Shetland http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/11/stewart-earls-orkney-history-orkney-shetland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/11/stewart-earls-orkney-history-orkney-shetland/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:09:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51633 The Northern Isles have their own national, or at any rate quasi-national, historical tradition. It is quite separate from that of Scotland, though it is clearly connected to it; and it offers parallels to the nineteenth-century growth in historical consciousness elsewhere in the British Isles.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/11/stewart-earls-orkney-history-orkney-shetland/feed/ 0 From Asset in War to Asset in Diplomacy: Orkney in the Medieval Realm of Norway http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/05/asset-war-asset-diplomacy-orkney-medieval-realm-norway/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/05/asset-war-asset-diplomacy-orkney-medieval-realm-norway/#comments Mon, 05 May 2014 10:26:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49411 This paper looks at how Orkney figured in Norwegian royal strategies in the west and presents key examples which show its transition from a tool of war to a forum for peace.

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