zetlanderhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zetlander_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZetlander, n.
Revised 2018

Zetlandernoun

Now rare.
  1. 1614–
    A native or inhabitant of the Shetland Islands; cf. Shetlander n. 1.
    Stressed as ˈZetlander.
    1. 1614
      I haue seldome seene..better house-keepers, then be these Orkadians, and Zetlanders.
      W. Lithgow, Most Delectable Disc. Peregrination sig. G3
    2. 1701
      Some Zetlanders went to the King with their Skin-Coats, laying the oppressed condition of their Countrey before him.
      J. Brand, Brief Description of Orkney, Zetland 116
    3. 1821
      Sweyn Erickson, as good a Zetlander as ever rowed a boat to the haaf fishing.
      W. Scott, Pirate vol. I. ii. 23
    4. 1948
      The Zetlander, situated as he is nearer to Bergen than to Aberdeen, has a closer racial affinity with Scandinavia than with Scotland.
      Scottish Hist. Review April 87
    5. 1996
      Scottish nationalism, advocating independence within a united Europe, stimulated Zetlander sentiment for separation from Scotland in the 1980s and 1990s.
      J. B. Minahan, Nations without States 638

Originally published as part of the entry for Zetland, n.

Zetland, n. was revised in June 2018.