Orkney joins Norway's Constitution Day celebrations for first time in two years

Orkney has joined annual celebrations to mark Norway's Consitution Day for the first time in two years.
Islanders held a service followed by a parade through Kirkwall to celebrate their special friendship with the Nordic nation.
Anne Smith has more.

[@innocentellie]

Shetland and orkney will always be norwegian in our hearts, we would even buy them back if we could

[@ofaoilleachain]

They may yet rejoin Norway

[@garymacdonald7165]

Scotland and 🇳🇴 Norway! Brothers!

[@DonBean-ej4ou]

This is Orkney wanting out of Scotland😂

[@heidifarstadkvalheim4952]

And sisters! Why always fogeth half of the population?

[@tendrosstoodross2976]

Orkney and Shetlands, mainland Scotland has no connection with Norway. England has more connection with the Scandinavia than Scotland. Another SNP dullard running their mouth off by the sound of it.

[@memegodazkaban1358]

And soon hopefully a full part of the kingdom

[@JadenTreOige]

Orkney ❤️

[@GlacierCodfish]

Join us, brothers 🇳🇴 🇳🇴 🇳🇴 🇳🇴

[@eb4661]

Orkenøyene and Shetland carries Norwegian blood just as on our side of the sea, but they have cultured caring for culture better than us on the mainland of Norway. In good winds, a ship with sails moves a Norwegian from either side and over, in a day, a night and a some cups of coffee. And, the Norwegian may very well be from Orkney or Shetland. Letting the juridical problems aside, I really hope Orkney votes to transform fully to Norwegians, with the same and full rights - as any Norwegian. And in the speed of matters, I hope Shetland does too! And for the former Norwegian island of Færøyer, - please join! All the best from Norway! Best regards, Erik

[@psnaris]

They will pay a lot more for their whisky.

[@erlendkaarb2038]

0:19 17th May is Norways Constitution Day not the Independence Day.

[@Norwegian_Patriot]

As a Norwegian, I would like it if Orkney would join Norway as we have controlled Orkney through alot of history until the 15th century. I feel like Orkney would be the most patriotic part.

[@DonBean-ej4ou]

Can you afford this basket of beggars.

[@PanZerV]

​@@DonBean-ej4ouyes

[@Sebbir]

@@DonBean-ej4ouyou are asking a norwegian. Of course they can afford it

[@bigbird6039]

This is a clip about the celebration of Norwegian Independence ,and just like your ancestors. You are casting your greedy eyes across the sea 😟

[@PanZerV]

@@bigbird6039 because it is rightfully our land, the british are the ones who are actually greedy, holding on to their old colonies several thousands of kilometers away

[@heavyflamerheresy2581]

My Long lost brothers

[@bernardmolloy6241]

Remember Alba’s Picts, its Pictish Stones + Broch building culture. This was very much the culture of Orkney + Shetland, like many other parts of Alba, long before any Vikings.

[@bkern8536]

too bad, they will return to our fold!

[@Lucien234-i2z]

People forget that Orkney was and is Pictish land long before the Norwegians set foot in Norway!

[@michaelmallal9101]

My great-grandparents were Arcadian and migrated to South Australia. Maybe I'm a Norwegian.

[@brisser68]

i see the graves is danish names aswell

[@simonunella6330]

Stay with Britain

[@dhcanavan]

Surely it should be an Italian flag? "It may seem far-fetched, but in the late first or early second century the Roman poet Juvenal declared that the Romans ‘have recently advanced our arms beyond the shores of Ireland and the recently conquered Orkneys’. The fourth-century historian Eutropius also claims that Claudius added the Orkneys to the empire. We should not take these claims at face value; Ireland and the Orkneys were highly symbolic as the limits of the known habitable world. But the fact is that Roman pottery of a type that went out of production about AD 60 has been found at the broch of Gurness in Orkney, suggesting some kind of contact at a very early stage of the conquest."

[@Vingul]

That is very far-fetched. Not the quotation in itself, but your question/suggestion.

[@islywynn7678]

Italy isn’t the Roman Empire.

[@viperking6573]

Every Latin person today is a descendent of the romans, not only the Italians, so a flag would be the combinations of all ( I'm italian )

[@johnhelms8226]

There is no evidence of any permanent Roman presence in Orkney. At most, some Romans showed up briefly and left, but they engaged in self-promotion by saying they “conquered” Orkney and added it to the empire.

[@dhcanavan]

@@johnhelms8226 All part of that empire building preparatory propaganda drive eh? Even in the first Century AD. How little humans have changed perhaps?

[@paulmulholland5061]

Let them go who cares

[@davidhoins4588]

Little Britain cares for the oil and gas revenues sad little flag waving dirty Brit

[@corfile3869]

Patriotic british people like me

[@Finnbobjimbob]

The majority of the people who live there?

[@PanZerV]

​@@Finnbobjimbobmost of the populatoln thinks britain is falling

[@Parallax-ec4ik]

@@corfile3869 How are you British? You're either English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish (north), Manx etc. No one is British