Vikingland Islands

The Vikingland Islands (Doggish: Wiskenland, Styrkian Danish: Vikingland) are an autonomous province and set of islands to the east of the Shetland Islands. They are the northernmort part of Doggerland and its capital is Dråbenfjord on Litøy. The islands were under Norwegian authority until they were ceded to fisherman who held Dogger citizenship in the Battle of Dråbenfjord through the Treaty of Angler in 1564. The treaty itself specified the island's jurisdiction under said fisherman and never formally recognized the islands under the ownership of the Kingdom of Doggerland. By then, the islands population was estimated to be about 224, primarily workers creating a self-sustaining society with no government. Because of this, crime was rampant until 1567 where Thorbjørn Lauridsen, an original fighter in the Battle of Dråbenfjord, organized the Wiskenland Battalion to establish the Wiskenland Trade Company. Up until 1594, it traded livestock, rice, grain, and metals to prominent Scandinavian countries. By 1601 Norway and Denmark dropped its sales with the company and Kjartan Lauridsen, Thorbjørn's son and the organization's chair, formally dissolved the company and handed the land over to the Kingdom of Doggerland where it was granted autonomous status.

In passage of the Autonomous Territories and Provinces Act of 1901, the islands were granted the right to hold elections and form the Territorial Assembly. The first elections were held in 1902, and the Assembly still governs the islands. It's population today is 18,719, primarily people of Doggish and Norwegian decent.

List of Islands
The islands are also their own municipalities in the electoral map. From north to south, they are:


 * Nybergen
 * Nyoslo
 * Styrke
 * Litøy

Politics and Government
Following the popularity of the Northern independence movement, DNN conducted a poll among 643 Vikingland voters, with 71.2% saying they wish to remain in the Kingdom of Doggerland.

Demographics
The population of the Vikingland Islands are 18,719.

Language
Main article: Styrkian Danish

The majority of the Vikinglander People speak a heavily accented version of Doggish. While mainland Doggish is viewed as a prestige dialect, Vikinglander Doggish is seen as a nonstandard dialect with lower prestige. While often derided in social circles for sounding crude, linguists noted during studies during the later half of the 20th century that Vikinglander Doggish retained a larger overlap with old Norse than its mainland counterpart.

The islanders of Styrke speak Styrkian Danish. The "Danish" in this case is colloquial, in the vein of Cook Islands Maori, which is not really Maori but is labelled as such. Styrkian Danish is a heavily creolized form of English, Doggish, and other Scandinavian languages which have been isolated on for several centuries from the main islands' Vikinglander dialect.