This was one of the more ambitious conferences and was well organised by Doreen Waugh. It will long be remembered by those who attended. The Conference Report appeared in NOMINA volume 26.

In April 2005, it was stated that work on the proceedings was progressing well and publication was expected soon. The book would cost in the region of Ł10.

Programme.

Friday 4 April.

10.00 - 11.00: Coffee/Welcome (three organizing committees)
11.00 - 12.00: Eileen Brooke-Freeman: Shetland Place-Name Project.
12.00 - 1.00: Brian Smith: Andro Smyth's database of Shetland farm-names, 1628-1643.
1.00 - 2.00: Lunch (buffet)
2.00 - 2.45: Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig: Scandinavian place-names in Ireland
2.45 - 3.30: Arne Kruse: Worlds apart - Gaelic and Norse in the west of Scotland.
3.30 -4.00: Afternoon tea/coffee
4.00 - 5.00: Gillian Fellows-Jensen: Extermination or Economic Exploitation?
5.45 bus from hotel.
6.00 - 7.30: Civic Reception (with drinks and canapés)
7.30 - 8.30: W F H Nicolaisen: Shetland Place-Names in a Wider Context.
8.30 return to hotel by bus.

Saturday 5 April.

9.00 - 10.00: Barbara Crawford: 'Papar' names. Multi-disciplinary pitfalls and international potential,
10.00 - 10.30: Peder Gammeltoft: Islands great and small: a study of the islands and skerries of Shetland, and their significance.
10.30 - 11.00: David Sellar: Scandinavian personal names in Gaelic Scotland and the Isle of Man.
11.00 - 11.30: Coffee
11.30 - 12.00: Tom Schmidt: Onomastic Evidence of Faeroese and Shetlanders in Norway in the 16th century.
12.00 - 12.30: Alison Grant: The Ayrshire 'By' names.
12.30 - 1.00: Packed lunch
1.00 - 5.00: Afternoon excursion to Tingwall, Scalloway and Papil
6.00 - 7.30: Dinner
8.00 - 8.30: Berit Sandnes: What is Norse, what is Scots? A re-evaluation of Orkney place-names.

Sunday 6 April.

9.00 - 10.30: Society AGMs and other meetings
10.30 - 11.00: Coffee
11.00 - 11.30: Richard Coates: The Grammar of Scandinavian place-names in England: a preliminary commentary.
11.30 - 12.00: Diana Whaley: The semantics of stöng, stang
12.00 - 12.30: Inge Sćrheim: Norse settlement names in -land in Shetland and Orkney.
12.30 - 1.00: Packed lunch
1.00 - 6.00: Afternoon excursion (south mainland - including Jarlshof)
6.30 - 8.00: Dinner
8.30 - 9.00: John Baldwin: Anatomy of a Watercourse: Norse and later names along the Ham Burn, Foula.

Conference delegates visiting Jarlshof.

Monday 7 April.

9.00 - 9.30: Gunnel Melchers: The structure of Mead names.
9.30 - 10.00: Doreen Waugh: Some Westside place-names from Twatt.
10.00 - 10.30: Coffee
10.30 - 11.00: Svavar Sigmundsson: Place-names in Iceland and Shetland. A comparison.
11.00 - 11.30: Gunnstein Akselberg: Names composed in -stađir in Shetland and Western Norway. Continuity or discontinuity?
12.00 - 12.30: Packed lunch
12.30 - 5.30: Afternoon excursion (west mainland)
6.00 - 7.30: Dinner
8.00 - 8.30: Katherine Campbell: 'Trowie' names.
(To be followed by singing and entertainment by the "Shetland Youth Heritage Group" - including Christine Leask.)

Visiting the hut circles at Brouster.

Tuesday 8 April.

9.00 - 11.00: Visit to Clickhimin Broch/ Shetland Museum.

Those who are staying on for one more day will depart for a full-day tour to the north mainland and the Northern Isles of Yell and Unst on Tuesday and will visit Clickhimin Broch/Shetland Museum on Wednesday 9 April.

Visiting the Viking site at Sandwick on the Island of Unst.

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