Pawning the Northern Isles: Orkney and Shetland

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Perhaps the most astounding, if not largest in monetary value, thing to be pawned in history was the northernmost constituency of Great Britain, consisting of around 177 islands and nearly 1000 square miles of land.
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@thomasrinschler6783

If you think pawning these islands is bad, a previous king of Denmark, Christopher II, literally pawned the entire kingdom away in pieces. By the time he died, Denmark for all intents and purposes had ceased to exist. It took his son Valdemar IV over a decade to slowly raise the funds to pay off the debts to the various mortgage holders and bring the kingdom back under his control.

@LymanPhillips

I was watching thr mystery show Shetland, and decided to look up Shetland on a map. Whooo-weee! Those islands are remote! The sheer remoteness of the islands gives so much context to the history. Excellent. Plus - pirates!

@erroneous6947

History is far more complex than we give it credit for.

@randalllewis4485

After another historian (Simon Schama) first told me about Skara Brae on Orkney I was determined to visit it. This is an amazingly intact settlement of early Orkadians largely preserved because it became quickly covered with sand and grasses once abandoned and the Vikings never found it.

@jozz2248

Orkney means seal islands?? Ork Ork orkney 😂

@RetiredSailor60

Good Labor Day morning from Ft Worth TX to everyone watching. Spent 2 weeks in Norway in 1995 while stationed on USS Whidbey Island LSD 41.

@rockystonewolf

The Lewis chess pieces and the WW2 efforts! A mention of these two subjects would lift this episode even further.

@yakacm

They can say they are different to Scotland, but Stromness looks exactly the same as every other small Scottish town. We seriously considered moving to the Shetlands, just because it was so remote, but still has decent sized towns.

@JTA1961

They did Shetland cuz they knew eventually someone would... pony up.

@richarddelasota1812

What a fascinating episode. The Norse history of Shetland is celebrated in Lerwick every winter in a festival called Up Helly Aa.

@morrismorrison6965

From a Shetlander! Thank you for this fantastic piece of History, certainly History worth remembering 🙂

@stevenjohnson9918

Thank you for the video, from a Shetlander.

@mikenixon2401

Amazing lesson. Thank you.

@garywagner2466

I thank Jimmy Perez for my interest in Shetland. I’d love to visit Iceland, the Faroes, Shetland and Orkney but my wife is not so keen. Thanks for posting.

@flashwashington2735

Thank you. It all unfolded day by day. Fog of mind, fog of years obfuscated the way. Thanks for pushing back some mist allowing us a clearer glimpse. Yours is not to reason why rather discern with a clear eye. So we thank you History Guy. God bless.