WI: Orkney and Shetland remain Scandinavian until the Napoleonic Wars

What if Orkney and Shetland had remained Scandinavian processions until the Napoleonic wars before being handed over to the British? Would they become integral parts of the United Kingdom, and of Scotland, with representation in parliament? What would happen to the Norn Language?
 
If they're taking Orkney and the Shetlands from Denmark why wouldn't they take Faroe's and perhaps Iceland and Greenland? The GIUK gap was pretty strategically important.

I couldn't find historical population data on Shetland and Orkneys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Shetland#Population_development (this is the best which suggests something under 40,000 for the Shetlands likely similar for Orkneys).

The earliest for Faroe is 15,000 in 1900. Greenland 12,000 and Iceland 78,000 again in 1900.
 
There's no reason for them to become integral parts of the UK, anymore than the UK annexing the Faroes or Iceland. Even then, I don't see why they'd necessarily be a part of Scotland in particular instead of being something like the Isle of Man or Channel Islands in terms of status.

Norn language survival is doubtful. The trade links with Scotland makes its survival difficult, but apparently from what I can tell, it only really started declining because the political class of Orkney/Shetland became Scottish thanks to inheritance. If you could prevent that, it might survive. But even without that, I think by virtue of the islands being Norwegian/Danish the Norn language would survive into the 21st century as at least a severely endangered regional language. In any case, it'll definitely be one of the most English-looking non-English/Scots Germanic languages outside of Frisian (looking at the few attested Norn texts isn't too challenging compared to other Germanic languages).
 
There's no reason for them to become integral parts of the UK, anymore than the UK annexing the Faroes or Iceland. Even then, I don't see why they'd necessarily be a part of Scotland in particular instead of being something like the Isle of Man or Channel Islands in terms of status.

Norn language survival is doubtful. The trade links with Scotland makes its survival difficult, but apparently from what I can tell, it only really started declining because the political class of Orkney/Shetland became Scottish thanks to inheritance. If you could prevent that, it might survive. But even without that, I think by virtue of the islands being Norwegian/Danish the Norn language would survive into the 21st century as at least a severely endangered regional language. In any case, it'll definitely be one of the most English-looking non-English/Scots Germanic languages outside of Frisian (looking at the few attested Norn texts isn't too challenging compared to other Germanic languages).

But Dutch is not endangered because of a close training relationship with Germany.
 
But Dutch is not endangered because of a close training relationship with Germany.

Different topic, but if the Dutch were ruled by the Germans, never independent, never had an identity (or at least one beyond what the Faroes have, a regional identity), then they'd be speaking German like all other proper Germans and Dutch nothing more than a regional language.

But for Orkney/Shetland, inheritance by Scottish nobles helped bigtime in reducing the Norn language. It was ruled by Scottish nobles since the 13th century on behalf of the King of Norway (and ignoring butteflies, presumably later Denmark). When not even the ruling class is Norse, you don't have a good situation for long-term vitality of the Norse language and offshoots. But I insist, inheritance by those Scots is not necessary, and the Norwegian kings could grant the islands to someone else (a Norwegian, a non Scottish noble, etc.) if the original Norse ruling family dies out. That would certainly help.
 
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