Create your own video on http://studio.stupeflix.com/?w=1 ! center. Harald Hårfagre took control of Hjaltland in ca 875. The image is from the Icelandic manuscript Flateyjarbók from the 1400s. King Sverre transferred Shetland from the earl to the Crown of Norway in 1195. Image: The oil painting 'King Sverre's march over the Vossefjell' by Peter Nicolai Arbo. After defending the Hebrides, Håkon IV Håkonsson dies in Kirkwall the same year. Image from the Icelandic manuscript Flateyjarbók from the 1400s. Magnus Lagabøte relequishes Sudreyar (Hebrides) and Man in return for Scottish recognition of Norwegian sovereignty over Orkney and Hjaltland. The image shows the seal of Frostating where King Magnus Lagabøte on St. Hans day in 1274 as he seated on the throne gives the lagmann of Frostating the new Frostating law. King Christian I pawned the islands to pay a dowry. Illustration from the book Nordens Historie from 1887 by Niels Bache. James III and Margaret, their betrothal led to Shetland passing from Norway to Scotland. 85% of the catch (67000 tonn) in Shetland is herring and mackerel which is 52% of the catch value. Haddock, cod and angler achieve higher prices and make up the rest of the catch value, even though these species only make up 15% of the catch. Pictured: Mackerel. North Sea oil rig. Jakob Jakobsen was a Faeroese linguist and leading documentarist of Norn. Smyril Lines ferry Norrøna calls regularily at Lerwick. Air plane from Loganair on Fair Isle, midway between Orkney and Shetland.

• published: 21 Mar 2010
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