Later spelling (see Z) of Sc. Ȝetland (also Yetland, latinized Yhetlandia), a. ON. Hja(l)tland, Hjetland (MDa. Hetland) SHETLAND. Hence Zetlander, Zetlandic a. (Survives as an official name of the Shetland Islands, and in a title of the peerage.)
1703. J. Brand, Descr. Orkney, etc. To Rdr. Zetland … is unknown to the most of the Nation, if not, that they have only heard, there were such Isles, as the Zetlandick. Ibid., 116. Some Zetlanders went to the King with their Skin-Coats, laying the oppressed condition of their Countrey before him.
1809. Edmondston, Zetland Isl., I. 206. The native Zetland horse is very small.
1813. Montagu, Ornith. Dict., Suppl. s.v. Shearwater, In addition to the Zetlandic name of Lyre, Lyar or Lyrie, it has acquired the Norwegian names of Skrabe or Skraap.
1821. Scott, Pirate, ii. Sweyn Erickson, as good a Zetlander as ever rowed a boat to the haaf fishing.
1868. Rep. Brit. Assoc., I. 338. A list of the Zetlandic Annelids dredged in 1867 and 1868.
