Hi ThorBorjn/Scott, it's great to see another Shetlander on here. I was feeling like a voice in the wilderness!.
I am feeling very low about the state of our heritage and identity. It's hard to desribe in words but our true (norse) heritage and identity has been errased and we are being forced to live in a "melting pot" of "nothing". And everything is about Scotland....
Have you read this month's Shetland Life?. The place-names article by Eileen Brook-Freeman(she is a Shetland woman married to an english man I think) was absolutely dreadful. And she is doing the place-names project for the Shetland Amenity Trust!!.
On a positive note, have you see the little book called "Shetland's Old Norse Personal Names"?. You can buy it from The Shetland Times and it's a book with lists of Shetland's old norse personal names and what they mean.