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Ethnicity and the origins of local identity in Shetland, UK––Part I: Picts, Vikings, Fairies, Finns, and Aryans

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The population of the North Sea archipelago of Shetland, UK possesses a distinct sense
of ethnic identity, which connects the island’s present-day community to that of its Old Norse/Viking
settlers from Scandinavia. This sense of Viking ethnicity, however, is relatively recent, first arising
in the 19th Century. This paper argues that Shetland’s cultural identity must be understood in
terms of the islands’ historical interconnectedness with trends in literature and scholarship in mainland
Scotland, Britain, and Europe as a whole. Part I of this two-part paper looks at how works of
literature and international academic research into folklore, racial anthropology, archaeology, and
philology influenced and were influenced by the Shetland community’s conceptions of its own history.
Over the course of the 19th Century, a sense of ethnic uniqueness and identification with the
Vikings gradually developed in Shetland, linked to ideas concerning Shetland’s past inhabitants
(Picts and Vikings), past folk belief (Finns, mermaids, and fairies), and the increasing prominence
of research into Aryan/Indo-European ethnicity. Despite its geographic isolation, the history of
ideas within Shetland is fundamentally one of interchange with the wider world.

KEYWORDS:
Islands;
Orkney and Shetland;
Vikings;
Ethnicity;
Racial anthropology;
Aryans

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Judul Seri

Journal of Marine and Island Cultures

No. Panggil

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Penerbit

New York : Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Institution for Marine and Island Cultures, Mokpo National University.., 2013

Deskripsi Fisik

Journal of Marine and Island Cultures (2013) 2, 39–48

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English

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http://dx.doi.org/10

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Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

(2013) 2,

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ILMU KELAUTAN

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