Talk:Battle of Ronas Voe

Disclosure of conflict of interest
I have added a source for some of the material in the article which was written by my Grandfather, John William Francis "Jackie" Edwardson. He has lived in Ronas Voe for the last 83 years, and it was him who made me aware of this topic many years ago. This source was originally written as an information piece which was displayed at the Tangwick Haa Museum in Eshaness, Shetland. When I was made aware of it, with his permission I transcribed and published it to the now defunct "Shetlopedia", a wiki pertaining to topics relating to Shetland. This website went down many years ago, and ever since the topic has been on my mind. It has taken me until now to get the chance to search through the sources available and to be able to write my version of the article to be suitable for Wikipedia.

I have placed the transcript of my grandfather's piece onto my own website for the convenience of anyone who wishes to see it. I do appreciate there are some minor flaws with this - most notably, the fact that the Dutch Republic was at war with England, not Britain (which at that time did not exist as a single country), however the article on the whole is very informative. I am only using this as a source where other sources do not contain the same information. I do think it is a valid source, as it is a written version of the oral history of the event which has been passed down through the generations.

In the best interests of being transparent, I thought I better mention my relationship to the author of this source, seeing as I am the primary author of this article. --Griceylipper (talk) 15:18, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Update - I found a small snippet from 2008 that my Grandfather wrote to another user on Shetlopedia regarding his piece on the Battle of Ronas Voe, explaining where he got it. Griceylipper (talk) 05:37, 5 April 2020 (UTC)