Roy Grønneberg

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Roy Grønneberg, Shetland author and one-time proprietor of The Hjaltland Bookshop, was born in Lerwick February 16th 1947. He was a linguist and a scholar of Shetland's Nordic past and a passionate advocate of greater automony for the islands. He founded the Shetland branch of the SNP and, with fellow SNP activist Bill Adams, he designed the flag now adopted as the Shetland Flag. Roy died June 13th 1997.

Grønneberg was a regular contributor to local journals. His main published work as editor and author is as follows:

Island governments: the experience of autonomous island groups in northern Europe in relation to Shetland's political future, 1976

Island futures: Scottish devolution and Shetland's constitutional alternatives edited by Roy Gronneberg, foreword by Magnus Magnusson 1978

Jakobsen and Shetland, 1981, a study of the work of Jakob Jakobsen

Hjaltland: a map of Shetland in the Old Norse language of the sagas, 1991