Okay, so Norn was a North Germanic language closely related to the Faroese and Norwegian languages and slightly more distantly related to Icelandic, Danish, and Swedish that was spoken in the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland) off the North Coast of Scotland (yes, I am copying the wikipedia article on it).

It gradually died after the lands were given to Scotland by Norway in the 15th century, with the last known speaker dying in 1850 (quite honestly, I'm surprised it lasted that long).

However, your goal here is pretty simple: keep the language alive to the present day. Bonus points if you do it in unique and interesting ways!

This is intended to just be fun for the most part, however, you should know that I'm eventually planning on doing a timeline that relies heavily on the Butterfly Effect which has a relatively insignificant POD, and this might be one of the possible PODs (I'll actually start a poll once I have enough of them out).
 
For an answer not involving Norwegian retention of the islands: what about a Scottish or British conquest of the Faroe Islands? Then there’s a substantial Nordic-speaking contingent in the nation, enough that might somehow sustain Norn longer.

And it doesn’t involve a British nation having to conquer huge swaths of territory, either. Maybe the PoD is some British-Danish war in the early modern era?
 
For an answer not involving Norwegian retention of the islands: what about a Scottish or British conquest of the Faroe Islands? Then there’s a substantial Nordic-speaking contingent in the nation, enough that might somehow sustain Norn longer.

And it doesn’t involve a British nation having to conquer huge swaths of territory, either. Maybe the PoD is some British-Danish war in the early modern era?

If UK got Faroe Islands, Faroese would be as dead as Norn, if you want to keep Norn alive let Denmark keep the islands.
 
If UK got Faroe Islands, Faroese would be as dead as Norn, if you want to keep Norn alive let Denmark keep the islands.

Wouldn’t that depend on the PoD, though? There might be a decent middle ground where Norn is still spoken but it’s late enough that the British couldn’t supplant Faroese in time. Say, something in the 17th-18th century?
 
For an answer not involving Norwegian retention of the islands: what about a Scottish or British conquest of the Faroe Islands? Then there’s a substantial Nordic-speaking contingent in the nation, enough that might somehow sustain Norn longer.

And it doesn’t involve a British nation having to conquer huge swaths of territory, either. Maybe the PoD is some British-Danish war in the early modern era?

Perhaps a POD during the Napoleonic Wars
 
Perhaps a POD during the Napoleonic Wars

I am not sure about that. The Faroes stand out from the Shetlands and Orkneys in that they were not repopulate by mass emigration in the 19th century, a consequence of British vs Danish policies towards their North Atlantic arcbipelagoes. A British Faroes will ha e that hit against it, for starters.
 
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