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Shetland was given associated membership in the Nordic Council in about 1995; Mr. Mullay, director of Shetland Tourism at that time, told med during my visit in 1998. As a visitor from Shetland told me here in Oslo three years ago, some delegates (or representatives) went to a first meeting, with the UK security policy tightly following their steps. Since then nobody have heard any more about this association. ---- Seems strange to me, that the genetic research about DNA-structures at the Northern Isles ("Who were the vikings"-University project) is not more known among you debattants in Shetlink. Both in Orkney and in Shetland, around 70% showed up to have exactly the same genes at the population on the norwegian west coast. No doubt about that, this provces even more strong links to the homeland, than both in Iceland or Faraoe. When you read some older norwegian books about visitors to Shetland, nobody should be surprised about the cultural fact, either, since people on the island knew well about their norwegian ancestors. They also knew very well about the history through the Sagas.

I visited Shetland first time in 1989, and the Shetland Tourism boss, Mr. Mullay told me that Shetland were invited as a associated member of the Nordic a few years earlier.

Problem with this new flag of Orkney, is only that it was the alternative new flag of Bohuslän, a landscape of 140.000 inhabitants north of Gothenborg. Just look up the bahusarkivet, http://www.arkivguiden.net/ba/ba00.htm. The flag has nothing with the flag of Quisling to do, that was without a blue cross, and besides, why bother about it at all? All that is history. Bohuslän ie. Båhuslen, belonged to Norway until 1658. Each one 100 years we give a way a couple of landscapes, its just a part of our tradition. It adds to the development of new flags. Which will be the next? Greetings from Oslo, Norway. wiwaro