Okei, the first thing, if i shall work with Orkney, i want to go over the historical phonology and simplify it allot.
For example, that á usually results in å, but we have a case where it results in aw, and another case with /a/. It would not be wierd if that just two difference dialects. In northern Norway that is actually the case, some get /aw/ like icelandic, but most others get /å/. And some faroese dialects just keep the long old norse /á/.
Thus i would like to choose á > å and generalize it. Because that is the sound development we generalized in shetland nynorn.
_________________ Hrafnsmærki skal væifa í vindinum á ný aftr, Þat sum es in sanna Danibrók!
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