SNSBI 2003 Lerwick meeting (April 4–8)
Friday 4 April
- Eileen Brooke-Freeman: Shetland Place-Name Project
- Brian Smith: Andro Smyth’s database of Shetland farm-names, 1628–1643
- Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig: Scandinavian place-names in Ireland
- Arne Kruse: Worlds apart – Gaelic and Norse in the west of Scotland
- Gillian Fellows-Jensen: Extermination or economic exploitation?
- W. F. H. Nicolaisen: Shetland place-names in a wider context
Saturday 5 April
- Barbara Crawford: Papar names – multi-disciplinary pitfalls and international potential
- Peder Gammeltoft: Islands great and small: a study of the islands and skerries of Shetland, and their significance
- David Sellar: Scandinavian personal names in Gaelic Scotland and the Isle of Man
- Tom Schmidt: Onomastic Evidence of Faeroese and Shetlanders in Norway in the 16th century
- Alison Grant: The Ayrshire -by names
- Afternoon excursion to Tingwall, Scalloway and Papil
- Berit Sandnes: What is Norse, what is Scots? A re-evaluation of Orkney place-names
Sunday 6 April
- Richard Coates: The grammar of Scandinavian place-names in England: a preliminary commentary
- Diana Whaley: The semantics of stöng, stang
- Inge Særheim: Norse settlement names in -land in Shetland and Orkney
- Afternoon excursion (south mainland – including Jarlshof)
- John Baldwin: Anatomy of a watercourse: Norse and later names along the Ham Burn, Foula
Monday 7 April
- Gunnel Melchers: The structure of Mead names
- Doreen Waugh: Some Westside place-names from Twatt
- Svavar Sigmundsson: Place-names in Iceland and Shetland – a comparison
- Gunnstein Akselberg: Names composed in -staðir in Shetland and Western Norway – continuity or discontinuity?
- Afternoon excursion (west mainland)
- Katherine Campbell: Trowie names
- Singing and entertainment by the “Shetland Youth Heritage Group” – including Christine Leask
Tuesday 8 April
- Visit to Clickhimin Broch and Shetland Museum
